Designing and 3D Printing Wattbike Atom Accessories at Home

THE ultimate Two Tablet solution for your Wattbike

So, after many more hours, day and weeks – and most important of all, customer feedback, V3 is ready for blast-off. This design solved the issue of sliding the bracket around the bar to fit. I have completely redesigned the main clamping structure and thoroughly tested it under load, sweat and tears.

The device will be on sale in the next two weeks as I’m buy printing off a decent stock so as not to disappoint in order delays when launched. I’m currently looking at the week starting 5th July.

As for the other improvements, the V3 device now has the following:

• Two-part, four-bolt main clamp with great ‘grab’ force
• Higher mounting jaws to increase overall screen height capability
• 20mm jaws for thicker devices
• Adjustable screen grip by design
• Completely redesigned gripping and angle adjustment (video coming soon)
• Rubber insert to protect the screen and/or device
• Improved screen grip via the rubber insert
• Every device will now come with the iPhone adaptor

I look forward to you trying the new V3 and hearing your fantastic feedback!

I will be providing a ‘25% off’ upgrade code for ALL existing customers. Look out for the email or if you don’t get one, let me know!

After much testing, designing, printing, testing… you get the idea, I decided to remodel the VESA mount based on a new, more substantial and certainly more adaptable core bracket design.

Available NOW in limited numbers

This revised approach to the bracket design removes the requirement to use the top of the bar, and thus removes the need to ‘nurture’ the bracket around the bar corners. Additionally, you’ll see from the photos below that it’s fairly substantial and therefore holds more weight. Some may say over-designed. However, when it’s holding your expensive tablet or VESA monitor, then that’s cool.

The current tested weight is 2.5kg MAX for the screen. If you are looking for the perfect Wattbike VESA UHD 4K screen for your AppleTV 4K, then I can’t recommend this one from Amazon highly enough (This is NOT a sponsored link). I like it so much, I use it myself – see photos.

IMPORTANT: The new Apple TV has NOT changed in size and is still 98mm x 98mm X 35mm

More Beef

The actual VESA mounting plate has also been beefed up a little, adding more rigidity and reducing screen wobble. It also allows for both VESA75 and VESA100 standards using the same bracket.

Apple TV Mount

On top of all this, it’s super easy to fit and extremely flexible to use – as you can see from the photo below, I also use the same bracket reversed for my Apple TV ‘Backpack’. The bracket is attached by simply sliding onto the existing mounting bar and finger-tightening the four bolts that grip the bar with super-human strength. No need to over tighten here!

Material Update

Materials have changed too. I’ve been experimenting with different printing materials and have settled on a specific PETG blend that is incredibly strong and more resistant to heat. It also allows for far more flex and is considerably less brittle than the previous PLA material used.

Low Rider

The photos above show how adaptable this new approach is. You can adjust the height of the mounting bar and then adjust the position of the brackets, so you can get the screen a lot lower with this VESA bracket approach – lower than the original mounting. And the design has allowances so as not to have to remove the original bottom mounting bracket from the Wattbike.

The top screen bracket shown in the photos is entirely optional. I was simply testing the spacing and using both together (I use them both all the time). The photos show my current permanent Wattbike Dual Display AppleTV setup.

I think I may be now at peace with this one! …and relax.

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Well, this has been quite a challenge. To design a robust solution to mount VESA monitor onto the Wattbike AND allow for my multi-screen too.

The mounting kit is currently in testing. I had material issues with the Apple TV ‘Backpack’ bending due to residual heat created by the ATV (Apple TV) unit. Now redesigned with more room for warm air to flow and dissipate which has solved any heat issues. Running the ATV at full tilt to stress it!

NOW AVAILABLE

More to follow, but here are some photos for now…

Based completely on user feedback of the incredibly successful Version 1 (V1), I have now completed and tested my creatively named Version 2 (V2), and it’s for purchase here

You asked, and I answered. The V2 now incorporated a fixing for an additional phone holder to add flexibility to the Wattbike compatible dual-screen solution. This will enable you to swap between a phone (either landscape or portrait) and a device or tablet at will!

The phone holder is an additional purchase, so if you don’t require it, you still can benefit from the V2 improved features such as 200m more height for larger devices or tablets and slightly improved gripping strength from minor adjustments to the clamping (not that the V1 performed badly in that dept.)

If you have the V1, and don’t require the phone option, then there’s no real-life benefit to upgrade. If you want to upgrade anyway, then contact me for a generous discount code for existing customers.

Happy Wattbiking!
Ian

So, I decided to go back to ground zero for my dual screen/device holder. This is a regular thing for me – always looking to tweak and improve. However, this was a 3 am inspirational wake-up call!

First thing after a completed coffee and breakfast, I emptied my stored ideas into a Fusion360 design. A massive shift-change to the devices designed previously, to attempt and integrate both the bottom screen with the top screen in one easy-to-fit and easy-to-use bracket, whilst using a tried and tested tablet tripod fixing for the additional tablet/device.

The result is…

Pretty happy with it so far. A few more tweaks, to make in the future but the response from my fellow Wattbikers at the Facebook forum have been very receptive to the idea.

This bad-boy can take a huge 12.9 inch iPad Pro on the existing frame. It’s also incredibly solid (8Kg kettlebell weight challenge to follow).

The whole clamping mechanism has been greatly simplified and significantly improved. But most of all, the simplicity is fab. Very happy with this one. Now at version 8 point something!

A huge thanks for all those that have shown their support so far. On overwhelming response for this one.

More to follow very soon…

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