Manfrotto Flexible Arm

Product Information

Both of these options might work a little better on a laptop, but there’s no getting around the unflattering angle.

Be compact. When you’re not using your phone as a webcam, you probably don’t want a hulking great piece of plastic cluttering up your desktop. Our local exhaust ventilation arms can accommodate a wide range of different hoods, including flared, curved fish tail, spun bell mouth and ringed. I made this stand in about 3 minutes by cutting a slot in the top of a coffee cup. You could also use a small cardboard box. Dust and fume extraction arms for welding and fabrication processes tend to be articulated and have a greater range of motion, with integrated dampers allowing for greater control of airflow. You can read more about our welding fume and smoke extraction arms here DesignStart Physical IP included for all memberships with 1000s of products at no additional charge.

What Are The Benefits of Using An Extraction Arm?

Using this slotted holder with the phone in landscape and portrait. It takes a bit of maneuvering to get the phone at the right angle, and you risk jogging it out of the holder as soon as you start typing. You can use a tripod to the side of your computer if you don’t have space behind it. It’s more obvious that the camera is off to the side on the iMac than the Macbook An increased surface area of all joints gives a much lighter feel to the extraction arm, allowing for easier positioning and support in any required position. Yu, B., Yang, J., Du, R., Zhong, Y.: A versatile pneumatic actuator based on scissor mechanisms: design, modeling, and experiments. IEEE Robot. Automa. Let. 6(2), 1288–1295 (2021) Our new price match policy guarantees you the same price as other retailers so you’re alway getting the best deal possible...

Ata, A.A., Haraz, E.H., Rizk, A.E.A., Hanna, S.N.: Kinematic analysis of a single link flexible manipulator. In: 2012 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology, pp. 852–857. Athens, Greece (2012)

What Industries Could Benefit From Using An LEV Extraction Arm?

We offer comprehensive local exhaust ventilation (LEV) systems for a spectrum of working processes including vehicle fumes, welding dust and grinding. We can also provide solutions that are tailored to meet your specific needs in Vehicle Emissions Control Area's body shops or Laboratories where there is a potential exposure risk from harmful material emissions! A twin support tube allows for the simple fixing of a solid duct or flexible hose in various diameters. Here’s this flexible arm being used with a 16-inch Macbook Pro and an iMac. When used with a laptop, you can get a better angle than the built-in webcam, which is always going to be under your face, rather than parallel to it. That's an iPhone 13 Max mounted in landscape on a MacBook Air on the left, and an iPhone 13 in portrait on a MacBook Air on the right.

The Pixapro Heavy Duty Flexi-Arm features a male 5/8inch stud with a standard 1/4inch thread at one end, and a Female 5/8inch stud receiver at the other end. This configuration enables you to mount a small light or accessory on one end, and the other end can be mounted to a light stand or clamps such as a combi-clamp or a male C-Clamp etc. With this criteria in mind, let's take a look at the various types of mounts you can use to turn an iPhone into a webcam. Tripods Kato, T., Okumura, I., Song, S.-E., Golby, A.J., Hata, N.: Tendon-Driven continuum robot for endoscopic surgery: preclinical development and validation of a tension propagation model. IEEE/ASME Trans. Mechatron. 20(5), 2252–2263 (2015) Any mount that attaches directly to your monitor will let you get your phone webcam close to where the built in webcam is, providing a good angle for your calls. The main variable with these types of mounts is how they attach to your computer and your phone. These let you rest your phone in place, rather than holding it securely. As such, they’re easy to get your phone in and out of, but they will wobble when you type. I found it was more difficult to get a good angle when using this slotted holder than with any other mount, as the phone couldn’t be adjusted as easily with these mounts, and would often fall into a different position, anyway.Raising your laptop as shown above is also about practicality - it keeps the screen of your laptop as close to vertical as possible, something I found to be fairly important when using all of the mounts in this category. As you’d expect from hanging something as substantial as an iPhone to the top or side of your MacBook screen, the centre of gravity shifts quite dramatically as the screen moves away from perpendicular. Local Exhaust Ventilation For Dust & Fumes Is there a difference between a fume extraction arm and a dust extraction arm? On the left is the maximum steady angle for an iPhone Max mounted on my MacBook Pro. On the right is the angle for an iPhone 13 on the same laptop. I tried using a gimbal as a webcam, but it was a pretty impractical choice. The height of the gimbal isn’t adjustable, so you’ll either end up with your camera too high, or too low for your screen (as the image above shows, this works a little better with a laptop than a desktop, but neither is ideal). Yes, your gimbal will keep your phone stabilised while it’s being held, but, provided you're not moving your webcam around while you're talking, there really isn’t any benefit to this feature for webcam purposes. Additionally, the gimbal I used periodically turned itself off, causing the phone to drop down, and inserting an iPhone XS Max into the gimbal kept triggering SOS calls. You’d also need to keep your gimbal charged in advance of your calls. Our LEV arms are fitted with a single or twin spring supporting mechanism to accommodate greater lengths and larger weights.

A self-supporting mechanism capable of carrying various hoods and hose combinations.Self-supporting mechanism capable of carrying multiple hoods and hose combinations.Features a Flexible Adjustable Arm that allows you to bend into an array of different positions making it effortless to position your equipment where you need it to be.