Lytro Un-loseable Lens Cap by BSchuler

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Lytro Un-loseable Lens Cap

BSchuler

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Published on May 20, 2012

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An improvement to the stock lens cap for the Lytro Lightwave camera.

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Lytro's new lightwave camera has an unusual (and while pretty) and not very ergonomic design. it comes with a smal square magnetic lens cap which sticks to the front. While it looks good it falls off all the time and is one of those things destined to be lost since it is a loose component. I decided to design a replacement that would be un-lose-able. This simple design does the trick. A radius on the rectangles help it match the Lytro's design. The bridge between the cap and the ring is .5mm which becomes a flexible film when printed in ABS.

Set layer to .25 and infill to 100

Another "real" and practical object created in Tinkercad and printed on Makerbot.

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uidzero on May 23, 2012 said:

I put my lens cap inside the printed cap, as the printed cap by itself was a little loose around the camera body. Now I have an un-loseable magnetic cap, which is pretty neat.

BSchuler on May 23, 2012 said:

Interestingly I did the same thing, although mine does fit snuggly. What did you print it with (printer and filament)?

Dizingof on May 21, 2012 said:

Very impressive

The bridge between the cap and the ring is actually 0.25mm not 0.5mm - i dont thing i saw any design for ABS with a 0.25mm wall thickness !

BSchuler on May 21, 2012 said:

you are right - after first print I reduced it for more flexibility. ABS makes a very tough plastic film when printed at .25. at .5 it makes very flexible objects like springy bracelets.

laird on May 21, 2012 said:

I love this. I lost my Lytro cap after only a week or two, and they don't sell replacement (or didn't at the time). I designed a carrying case for the Lytro, but this cover is much more elegant. And it looks like you could print two, once to cover the lens on the front and one to cover the display on the back. Gotta print this...

BSchuler on May 21, 2012 said:

Yes two is better than one - I designed the connector piece so the holder fits between the various buttons and their very poorly designed zoom slider. Not sure what the ID folks were thinking on this puppy. Thinking about some sort of grip as well (although I personally think the current form of this camera is headed for the Moron Hall of failed products - the need this to be a chipset for mobile phones to have a prayer)