Many years back I was given a 3d printer for Christmas, and that’s kicked off a bunch of stuff where I’ve been printing things off, and eventually started trying to design some of my own things to solve specific problems that I’ve had.
Rolling back to High School I did spend a couple of years doing drafting classes. It was mostly on paper at the time because the schools hadn’t gotten moved over to doing things on the computer at that point in time. It was getting there but they only really had a couple of computers – not enough for an entire class to get hands on.
One of the first things that I wanted to solve was getting a mount in place for a microphone on my desk.
Yes, there’s lots of arms and other stands out there but they all required clamping to a desk, or took up some footprint on your desk. The arms that were out there either were cheap and didn’t work well, or were too expensive to be justified in my mind. After looking around I remembered that my monitors both have lugs on the back where the stands normally would be mounted. Since my monitors are held up on arms those lugs were not in use, and after looking at it for a bit I thought that I might be able to design something that would hold the microphone in place on the back of the monitor up off my desk surface.
After some tinkering I got to a point where I had a bracket that you could drop the microphone into with the original desk stand attached.
It was rung through some revisions, making things quicker to print, and trying to reduce the amount of filament that was required. This worked for a while, but after a bit I thought that I should probably try just printing off something to thread the microphone onto so that I didn’t have to use the original stand attached to the microphone.
And after a bit of playing around I now have this;
And while I’m sure that the folks that design things for a living are probably having a conniption about the way that this looks it’s actually completely functional on my desk and has been in place for a couple of years now. The other thing is that because I know what this thing should be doing I’ve also redone the model on a couple of different tools while I’ve been re-teaching myself how to use solid modelling tools.
If you have a LG monitor that uses the same type of stands mine do feel free to grab a copy of the thing from here;
https://www.printables.com/model/1507941-microphone-mount-for-back-of-lg-ultrawide-monitor
The only thing that I think that I have left to improve would be to get the threads better defined in the print. The ones that are there I’m pretty sure aren’t 100% correct, but they are close enough and soft enough that they just get pulled into the correct place when I thread the mic onto the mount. It’s good enough for what I’m doing but someone might want to clean that up at some point, but I don’t think that I need to do anything further with it at this point and its time to move on to some other project.