Neat. Perhaps one can use it to see PLA creep in real time.
(not a joke, I'd actually like to see that)
(not a joke, I'd actually like to see that)
I would not actually use this for uhhh, repeatable measurements over any extended period of time!
(If that were the case, I'd recommend re-printing it in a slightly more stable material, or just CNC milling the mounts out of aluminum using some of the ~$1-2K aluminum desktop mills and using some aluminum extrusions as the base.)
I wonder if they have enough different metal choices that you could build a thermal expansion compensated version? https://patents.google.com/patent/US8292537B2/en
but at “get it done in JLCCNC” prices I think a thorlabs mount is probably in your future :)
(you can too, if you’d like, the CAD files are all online as .step files :)