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Hack Attack: how to make a smartphone tripod mount

Want to cradle your smartphone ever so gently on the top of a tripod? Here's how to do it cheaply and quickly.

Lexy Savvides Principal Video Producer
Lexy is an on-air presenter and award-winning producer who covers consumer tech, including the latest smartphones, wearables and emerging trends like assistive robotics. She's won two Gold Telly Awards for her video series Beta Test. Prior to her career at CNET, she was a magazine editor, radio announcer and DJ. Lexy is based in San Francisco.
Expertise Wearables, smartwatches, mobile phones, photography, health tech, assistive robotics Credentials
  • Webby Award honoree, 2x Gold Telly Award winner
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There are plenty of smartphone tripod solutions on the market, like the GripTight or the Slingshot, but if you want a quick and dirty solution, come this way. You will need:

  • GorillaPod or small tripod

  • Cardboard

  • 1/4-inch nut

  • Ruler

  • Pen

  • Gaffer tape

  • Smartphone.

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