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For over a decade, I’ve wanted to attach an action camera to my bicycle helmet to make time lapse and long form videos. Now that I’ve worked out many of the kinks you can check out the cool results on my HYPERBIKE YouTube channel. In 2017 I attached a 3D printed PLA GoPro HERO 3+ mount to my bicycle helmet (the same helmet, sans stickers) but it had some serious problems. The footage was too jittery to use, video stabilization was not as advanced or as available as it is today. More seriously, I attached the mount to the helmet with a bolt that actually touched the top of my head. If I had an accident it could have caused serious injury. Fast forward nine years, I designed a GoPro compatible base designed to be 3D printed from flexible TPU filament and safely zip-tied to my helmet between the forward vents. The camera holder is an adaptation of https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6978330 . The GoPro HERO 4K has a 165° lens so I removed some material from the interior corners of the holder around the neutral density (“ND”) filter for a better field of view (“FOV