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Quick-Release Tablet Mount for a Remote Controller

A quick-release mount that carries a tablet screen above Sanxing's handheld remote controller, designed around the real controller and 3D printed in carbon-fibre PETG.

Client
Sanxing
Design time
24 hours of design and development
Quick release
A magnetic dovetail coupler lets the screen come off by hand
Adjustable
A hinge sets the screen angle; a clamp grips the controller
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What we brought

  1. What we can do

    We design around your own equipment

    We measured Sanxing's controller in our studio and fitted the printed mount to it before handing it back.

  2. How we look after you

    You see every part before it is made

    Two rounds of labelled renders showed Sanxing each part, its material and how it fits.

  3. What you get

    A mount that works like part of the remote

    Black carbon-fibre PETG, an adjustable hinge and a magnetic quick release, made for handheld use.

The build

How we built it

5 steps, from the brief to the finished piece. Pick a step to jump to it.

The brief

Step 1 of 5 · 15/04/2026

Controller
Sanxing's handheld radio remote, measured in our studio
Screen
A tablet in a ready-made mounting cradle
Release
The screen must come off quickly

At Additive Inn, our 3D printing studio in Singapore, we designed a mount for Sanxing's handheld remote controller. Sanxing needed a tablet screen held above the controller's own display, at an angle the operator can set, and quick to take off.

Design & prototyping

Step 2 of 5 · 29/04/2026

We measured the controller and modelled a mount between it and the tablet cradle: a clamp on the controller, a hinge to set the angle, magnets in a dovetail for quick release, and a path to tidy the cable.

  1. First design

    The first design, with its fastening clamp.

    Render

  2. First design · 29/04/2026

    A clamp, an adjustable hinge, a magnetic dovetail coupler and a cable path, all in black carbon-fibre PETG.

    Render +1 more

  3. Prototype · 04/05/2026

    We tried the printed mount and tablet cradle on the controller, held as an operator would.

    Photo

  4. Second design

    A slimmer clamp on the controller's screen housing, and a coupler that slides open to release the screen.

    Render +1 more

Production

Step 3 of 5

We 3D printed the clamp, hinge blocks, arm and coupler in matte black carbon-fibre PETG on our FDM printers: stiff enough to hold the tablet steady, light enough to carry on a handheld remote.

Build & assembly

Step 4 of 5 · 30/04/2026

We pressed the magnets into the coupler, fitted the metal hinge and screws, and set the mount on Sanxing's controller to check the clamp, the screen angle and the release.

Fitting the tablet cradle on the controller.

The final build

Step 5 of 5 · 17/07/2026

Sanxing's controller now carries its screen on a black mount that matches the remote. The hinge sets the angle, and the screen comes off at the magnetic coupler, leaving the controller free.

The arm folded on its hinge.

How it works

The finished mount on the controller.

Setting the screen angle on the hinge.

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