Flexible camera mount for Raspberry Pi model B+, RPi 2 model B and RPi 3

First I will say that I would never use one of the USB ports to support my camera, in my opinion that is just asking for trouble no matter how light the camera is.That said, I knew when I purchased this product that I would be mounting it some other way and it turns out the case I am using has a perfect place to mount it instead of the USB port. My case (clear acrylic case from C4 Labs) has a slot cut in the top to allow for the TFT display ribbon cable to connect to the board but as I am not using a TFT display with this project I was able to slide the end would go into the USB port into this slot and it worked perfect.The main reason that I purchased this product is because I liked the idea of having the bendable shaft that can be formed and will stay in position, the white shaft on this product is exactly what I wanted as it can be formed into whatever shape you need to point the camera in the direction you want. The end that you would connect to the USB port is also removable in case you want to mount this to anything else that works for you (drilling a small hole through the top layer of my case and mounting the white shaft directly to the case was one of my thoughts).I would recommend this product to anyone that wants to mount their Pi camera and be able to easily point it in any direction they need, while you can certainly use a USB port to mount the camera I don't recommend it as you can damage the port and in my case I need all of the ports I have and cannot spare one just to mount the camera. I would give the product 5 stars if it were just a little longer so that I can use the longer ribbon cable I have for my camera.

I read some negative reviews that this product shorted out people's USB ports and bricked their pi's, so I was a little apprehensive. In fact, to ensure that I did not do something stupid, I put a piece of electrical tape over the metal. For anyone else who might be apprehensive, that simple trick may save you $35 for a new pi. When I went to insert the electrical-tape-wrapped metal into the USB port it was plainly obvious that it goes in the narrow slot, not the wide one in which you can clearly see the metal contacts for the USB connector.It works as advertised, and was as easy as "pi" to install (excuse the pun).

Fried my pi too. Stay away from this product. If it doesn't fry your pi, it will break the plastic retainer inside the USB port. It puts too much pressure on it and will break it off with just a little bit of pressure. I ended up gluing this to my case instead.

I now have two of these mounts, as I am running two raspberry pi cameras in a bedroom window. The first mount has held up very well, keeping the camera more-or-less immobile for an entire year so far. It has not sagged over time.However initial positioning can be a little tricky because it is difficult to sufficiently tighten the nuts around the camera module. If you have only finger-tightened the nuts, they can loosen if subjected to any stress, allowing the camera to rotate around the mounting bolt and be misaligned. Not a problem if you aren't stressing the ribbon cable that feeds the camera.

It looks a decent deal longer than the picture here would convey. The neck is strong and will keep the camera in whatever position you place it in, no matter how the Pi is placed.A word of warning: make sure that you stick this in the USB port correctly. It needs to go "above" the pins, but not actually touching them. (If there's a good deal of resistance when you insert it, you're probably doing it right).If you plug in the Pi while this is touching the pins, you will fry it. It's an easy mistake to make.

Great little mounting kit.. one star off because the nuts are REALLY hard to get tight, and tend to fall off if not careful, plus USB "foot" should be a full USB connector because as it is, since it's metal, if you put it into the USB plug on the "connector side" it will kill your PI. You should make sure to mount the foot in the side of the USB port that doesn't have any connections on it. I will definitely buy again - it's a nice little bendable mount.

Works as designed and is as elegant as such a simple solution can be.

This thing is ESSENTIAL for the raspberry camera imho. it makes the raspberry into a tripod and works great!Wish they'd make the flat usb entering thingo plastic though. Otherwise awesome.Oh and it didnt rust in very humid conditions.

Verbesserungswürdig! Ansich ein super Teil, perfekt zur Ausrichtung der Kamera ohne viel Tamm Tamm. Ich nutze diese Halterung an meinem Octoprint im 3D-Drucker-Gehäuse, dafür ist er auch bestens geeignet. Leider ist hier aber Vorsicht geboten: Biegt man den Arm und richtet die Kamera aus, kann es schnell passieren, dass man einen kompletten USB-Port zerstört. So erging es mir, weil der "Fuß" der Halterung so bescheiden im USB-Port sitzt, dass dies böse nach hinten los gehen kann. Ich verstehe ehrlich gesagt nicht, wieso man hier keinen "blinden" USB Stecker verbaut hat, welcher ganz in die Buchse eindringt. So hätte man das Problem nicht, auch würde der Stecker fester sitzen.Ansonsten toll, biegt sich und bleibt stabil wie man die Kamera ausrichtet. Verarbeitung ansonsten ok.Preislich finde ich die Halterung absolut überteuert, aber lieber so, als irgendwas gebastelt...