I recently had the opportunity to go to two major league baseball games in two different cities within the course of 2 weeks. I love my Insta 360 X5 (I had the X2 before) and take it everywhere. Fortunately I checked online before I went, because they forbid selfie sticks, and it would have been confiscated.

For the second game, I took the 360 camera and a small screw on tripod base as a kind of handle, but the result is a really long arm in the pictures!

I checked and they do allow walking canes. I thought, what if I made a cane into a selfie stick?

The first step was to buy a cane, and i found this one for less than $7 on Amazon. I removed the tip (ended up scratching the shaft a little by prying off the end with a screwdriver.)

I then modeled an insert that took a 1/4 20 screw and nut. (all the step files and FreeCAD source are here.)

I made a little plastic washer to go on top (e-6000 was used to glue the parts in):

It wouldn’t do to press the rubber foot directly onto the screw, as it would push it into the shaft, so I made a little cap to fit inside the foot:

And with the cap on, an ordinary folding cane…

To prove it functions as an “invisible” selfie stick, Here’s a quick pic. There’s nothing magic about the invisible part, as long as the stick isn’t too wide, it fits within the “seam” from stitching two 180’s together. You can see the handle, but then the hands are always a little fused together anyway…