Prius Steering Wheel mount for iPhone 6 Plus, 7 Plus, or 8 Plus by DavidPhillipOster

Last crawled date: 3 years ago

Mount to hold iPhone 7Plus behind the steering wheel of a Toyota Prius (I have a 2012). OpenSCAD source files provided so you an make it fit your phone.
I used the base.stl from bhoffman's mount but discovered that when I printed his left and right pieces, they wouldn't fit at all onto the base, and since my phone was not in a case if they had fit my phone would have fallen right out.
After I posted all of this, I found the similar but I only discovered it after I had made this page.
So, I re-did his base in OpenSCAD:
base.scad - a version of the missing model of base.stl. I didn't actually test print this file, I just printed bhoffman's original base.stl. (scaled 91% in just the Z axis so it would fit my small printer.)
tee.scad - a model of the 'T' joint of the base, so I could subtract away from the left and right pieces. Just included by the other files.
mate.scad - quick print test - you can adjust the dimensions of the print so it fits snuggly on your base.
right.scad - The right half case. You can adjust the dimensions to fit your phone.
rightPlus.scad - The right half case with a hole for the lightning cable.
left.scad - The left half case. I include right.scad and just mirror reflect it.
leftPlus.scad - The left half case with a cutout for the 7 Plus camera bulge.
I did over - you can use leftPlus and rightPlus for what I'm using now, but I left right and left as the originals so you can diff the .scad files and see how easy it is to modify
I'm happy with the result: the base fits snuggly into the channel behind the steering wheel, and the left and right sides fit snuggly into the 'tee' channel at the front of the base, and the phone fits just right into the left and right pieces.
Now I'm writing an iOS app to give me easy access to the data and controls I've been missing - sort of a personal CarPlay.
This is all OpenSCAD, so feel free to play with it. just comment out the module call at the end of the file and write a different module call instead. use '%' to make solids translucent or '#' to make visible and translucent solids that were differenced away.