Project:
Small practical knobs and brackets

Contents:

1. Latitude adjuster screw
2. Cable bracket
3. Spirit level bracket
4. Handle and USB HUB label
5. Sight
6. Battery bracket
7. Frame to protect USB3 mini cable
8. To be continued

Note:
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7: Frame to protect USB3 mini cable:

The USB cable and its contact that connect to the camera is in dangerous. Both my Canon 6D and Nikon D800 cameras has the USB connection mounted on the side. It's very easy to hit this contact and broke it in the dark. I must do something to protect the cable contact, especially the USB contact in the camera.

This is how it looks like on the Nikon D800 DSLR camera. The USB contact is a USB3 mini. I will built a frame around the contact and I can use the two holes in the chassi to guide it in position.

The USB cable has a 90 degree angled contact. Even then it protrude far away from the camera.

This is my first outcast to a frame to place around the contact.

The 3D-printed bracket frame. All dimensions was correct already at the first version.

The USB contact squeezed into the bracket frame.

Inserted into the camera. Now nothing can smash into from the top and destroy the camera. But sideways it could.

Looking at the design once more, can I use this bracket ? If I prolong the frame so it reach this bracket I can have a small screw to stabilize it and it will be better protected.