Customizable Endoscope Camera and LED Flashlight Mount by PHolzwarth

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Create a skid for your endoscope camera, and add up to four LED flashlights to it!
Using an endoscope camera on its own to explore dark underground spots has at least two problems:
The underground is too dark to get good imagery, even if the cam has some LEDs.
Due to its edges and its smal weight, the camera easily gets stuck on its way.
Using this model, you can print different versions of a skid for the camera, one with and one without spaces for flashlights. The one without flashlight spaces covers the edges of the camera and thus lets it slide down easier. The one with flashlights adds some weight and a reasonable amount of light, when equipped with up to four flash lights.
This model is customizable for the dimensions of the camera. The STL files provided here fit a camera with 5.5mm diameter and 45mm length. Use Customizer to create different versions for different camera sizes.
To adapt the shape of the flashlights to be used, download the .scad file and modify the "Flashlights" parameters accordingly. I've used the inexpensive "Mini CREE Q5" LED lights shown in the photo, as available on ebay.com and ebay.de.
Attention: When using the flashlights, the construct gets a bit heavier. To avoid loosing it by falling off the camera, I recommend binding a cord from one flashlight clip to the wire of the camera.
To give the camera an angle and let it look sideways when letting it down a hole, you may put its wire under the clip of one of the flashlights.