Parametric Microscope Holder for Cellphone Cameras

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The FreeCAD file will generate 3D models to print parts for a microscope-cellphone adapter, to take pictures and videos.
The main change includes a shift from cartesian to polar or cilindrical "coordinates" for the alignment of the camera to the optical path.
Documentation is work in progress.
This design is meant to improve over the previous ones in different ways:
1) The smartphone is easily detachable.
2) Small adjustments are possible in one of the two directions (the radial axis) but coarse adjustments are possible in the other (angular axis).
3) The FreeCAD design is now almost fully parametric (only the parts that hold the smartphone have been modified in TinkerCAD).
To-do:
Find a better way to fix the radial axis screw, so far we have used two nuts and glue for this purpose.
Further testing will surely reveal more room for improvement.