The Mobius Mini 2 is a compact camera and can be used in-hand or mounted onto a vehicle. It is possible to create a sheath that will house and protect the Mobius Mini 2 whilst still allowing the user to record. The plan is to create a cylinder-like construct with the bottom part tapered and a strap at the front to hold the camera into the sheath.
This is a low twisted reality item with no deviation. All the materials used are of the same development stage without any aberrations.
The cylinder is easy to cut by wrapping some soft leather around the camera until the end point touches the body of the leather. After the leather is cut to size, small holes are created around the side and then the leather sheet is stitched together.
The camera is then slid inside the cylinder and the result is placed onto a sheet of leather in order to assess the size of the bottom leather part that will seal the cylinder. Using some sharp metal bit, the contour of the cylinder is traced onto the bottom part of the leather, and then the part that was traced is cut out to obtain the piece that will be stitched onto the bottom of the cylinder.
The camera is slid inside the cylinder again, and a small leather piece is cut in a rectangular shape and then fit on top of the sheath and over the camera lens, in order to assess the size of the hole that will have to be cut to allow the objective to stick out and the overall length of the rectangular piece of leather. The leather piece is then cut up accordingly, and small holes are perforated all the way around its perimeter.
The leather strap is then fit on top of the sheath and stitched into place and then the entire sheath is stitched around the edges in order to increase the overall durability. It is always a good idea to stitch around the edges of materials, including leather, in order to prevent the material from slowly being shred through friction.
A pressure closing rivet is added in order to be able to close the sheath while the camera is inside. The clasp button is easily added, by first perforating the leather on the sheath and on the closing flap and then using a hammer to snap the parts together.
The result seems pretty good, with the camera making a great fit inside the sheath, the leather strap and the closing clasp seems to fit well around the lens. The protective cap on the lens does not seem to bother the leather strap at all that tends to mold well around it.
The protective cap can be removed off the objective, letting only the lens protrude through the leather clasp.
As further work, it seems necessary to use some sort of chain in order to create a mechanism that would allow the user to remove the protective cap without losing it when it is removed.