The Upside-Down Phone Stand V1.1

Lie on your side and the film does not lie down with you. Every shot arrives at ninety degrees, which is correct for exactly one scene in Spider-Man and wrong for the rest of cinema. This holds the phone over, so the picture comes back level with your head.

Size

122 × 46 × 108 mm

Filament

≈ 42 g

Parts

One

Works on

Your right side

What it is

One printed piece, no hardware. A flat base, a lip along the front edge to stop the phone sliding out, and a back that rakes up behind it. The two triangular voids are not styling; they are what stops it being a solid slab of plastic you wait all afternoon for.

Set it on the bed beside your head, turn the phone upside down in it, and lie down on your right. Rotation lock on, or the phone will helpfully undo the whole idea.

This is the first one held up to a mirror. Same part, other hand, for everyone who does not sleep the way we do. If you turn out to be a left-side person, the Founder Edition is on the shelf next to this.

Print it before you trust it. This is a plastic bracket with your phone leaning on it, exactly as trustworthy as your first layer. The lip runs the full 122 mm, so most phones sit in it with a case on, but check yours before you walk away from it.

Printing it

What we printed ours with. A starting point, not laws.

Layer height

0.2 mm on a 0.4 mm nozzle

Walls

4 perimeters — the stiffness lives in the walls, so don't economise here

Infill

20%, gyroid

Supports

None. It prints lying on its flat face.

Material

PLA. Use PETG if your bedroom gets properly warm.

If your printer disagrees with any of this, trust your printer.