From the Loftsmith Workshop

Trading card scanner stand, phone deck with 5 heights

Holds your phone steady above a trading card so you can scan a stack without wobbly hands. The deck has a window for the camera and slides up a tall post to one of five heights. A little tray at the front catches the cards as you go.

2 parts · 143 g · 111 × 167 × 175 mm

by Loftsmith Workshop

White base with a tall post, an orange phone deck with a square window, and a small card tray
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Parts

  • base · PLA (white) · Flat on its bottom with the column standing up, as modelled

    Card well, thumb scoop, catch tray, column with the notch ladder on its back and 1-5 height pips on its front. About 105 g and 2 h 38 min at 2 walls/15%. 110 x 167 x 175 mm at default settings, so it fits a 180 mm bed. Use white: the well is the scan background.

  • phone deck · PLA (any colour; orange in the picture) · Plate down, collar up, as modelled

    Phone plate with side lips, top stop and camera-bump window, plus the collar with two locking pegs. The peg undersides are 45 degrees, so it needs no supports. About 38 g and 55 min at 2 walls/15%.

Print settings

Layer height
0.2 mm
Walls
2
Infill
15%
Supports
None
Notes
Both parts: about 147 g and 3 h 39 min at 2 walls/15% (engine estimate). At 3 walls/15% it is about 193 g and 4 h 48 min, for a stiffer column. Print the base in white PLA. The deck can be any colour.

Assembly

  1. Print the base and the phone deck. No supports and no hardware are needed.
  2. Seen from the front, hold the deck over the column shifted 9 mm to the left so its two inner pegs line up with the vertical grooves on the back of the column. Lower it down the column.
  3. At the height you want, slide the deck 9 mm to the right and let it drop 1.5 mm into the seat. The pips on the column front, just above the collar, show which notch (1 to 5) you are on.
  4. Lay the phone screen-up with its camera end toward the column. Push it against the top stop and the right-hand lip so the camera bump sits in the window. Measure the bump gap sliders from the top edge and the right edge with the screen facing up.
  5. Drop a card into the well and scan it. Lift it out with a fingertip in the front scoop and stand it in the front tray.
  6. To change height, lift the deck 1.5 mm, slide it 9 mm left, move it up or down, slide it back right and let it drop. Try each notch with your scanning app and keep the lowest one that shows the whole card in focus.

Good to know

  • The 'whole card in frame' check assumes a 26 mm-equivalent main camera with the lens within 10 mm of the bump centre. Some phones need more distance to focus or switch lenses up close, so try each notch with your app.
  • Card thickness (0.32 mm) and sleeve film (0.13 mm per layer, the thick end of the deck-sleeve range) are assumptions. They set the tray capacity, so thinner sleeves fit more cards.
  • The Japanese-size perfect-fit and penny sleeve outer sizes are estimates. If a sleeve is a loose or tight fit in the well, check its real size against the 0.6 mm per side of play.
  • The deck locks by lifting and sliding into seats, not with a spring click. It only moves when you lift it 1.5 mm first.
  • The stand does not fix sleeve glare or foil reflections. Those depend on your lighting and app.
  • The stability check assumed a phone up to 175 mm long and 260 g, and counted the base as 45% solid. Do not hang anything heavier off the deck.
  • Collar play is set to 0.2 mm per side. If the deck binds on your printer, raise the 'Collar play per side' slider. Fits and the lock have been checked only in the engine, not on a real print.
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