The Upside-Down Phone Stand V1

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 left 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 left. Rotation lock on, or the phone will helpfully undo the whole idea.

On your left, and only on your left. The lip runs down one edge, so rolled the other way there is nothing for the phone to rest against and the picture comes out inverted anyway. We worked this out after printing it. Rather than quietly fix the file we kept it, called it the Founder Edition, and drew the other one — which 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.