Insta360 One RS 1-Inch → DJI Osmo Pocket 3 Battery Adapter

The problem

The Insta360 One RS 1-Inch 360 Edition — co-engineered with Leica — is one of the best consumer 360 cameras ever made: two 1-inch sensors, Super-Summicron lenses, genuinely cinematic footage. But it takes a specific battery base, and Insta360 no longer produces it. If yours dies, or you want a spare, there's nothing to buy. A lot of people are sitting on an expensive camera they can't switch on.

The underside of the Insta360 One RS 1-inch core, showing the spring-contact strip and rails the discontinued battery used to clip onto — The orphaned coreThe underside of the camera core. That sprung contact strip and the rails are where the original battery base clipped on — the part Insta360 no longer makes. Without it, the core has no power.

The idea

The camera core also has a USB-C port, and the One RS will run on USB-C power. Meanwhile the DJI Osmo Pocket 3 battery handle is still in production, cheap, widely available — and almost exactly the right size and shape to stand in for the missing Insta360 base. So: use the DJI battery as the power source, and print an adapter that holds the two together and routes power from one USB-C port to the other.

The DJI Osmo Pocket 3 battery handle lying on a table — The donor batteryThe DJI Osmo Pocket 3 battery handle — in production, inexpensive, and the right shape to carry the camera. It puts power out over USB-C.

How it works

The printed adapter is a shell that mates the camera core to the DJI battery, in the same footprint the original base occupied. Inside it sits a short USB-C extender that carries power from the DJI battery's USB-C output up into the camera's USB-C input. No soldering, no electronics to build — the extender does the electrical work and the print does the mechanical work of holding everything rigid and aligned.

A Basesailor USB-C extender adapter, male to female, on a table — The power pathA Basesailor USB-C extender (PD 100W, 40Gbps) — this is the piece that actually carries power through the adapter. It's a stock part; the print is designed around it.

The 3D-printed adapter shell, showing the internal cavity and the USB-C pass-through — The printed shellThe adapter cavity. The USB-C extender drops in here; the walls locate it and hold the camera-side plug in the right place to meet the core.

The finished printed adapter standing next to the USB-C extender that fits inside it — Adapter + extenderThe finished adapter beside the extender that lives inside it. Everything is off-the-shelf except the printed part.

Assembled

Stack it up — DJI battery, printed adapter, camera core — and the One RS powers on and records, exactly as it did on its original base.

The full assembly: DJI battery at the bottom, printed adapter in the middle, Insta360 camera core on top — The stackDJI battery, printed adapter, camera core — one handheld unit again.

The assembled camera powered on, screen lit, Leica Super-Summicron 360 lens in the foreground — Alive againPowered on and running — on a battery Insta360 never made for it.

What you need

Your Insta360 One RS 1-Inch 360 core — the part you already have and can't power.
A DJI Osmo Pocket 3 battery handle — the power source.
A USB-C extender adapter — I used the Basesailor USB-C Extender (PD 100W, 40Gbps, 3-pack). Any short, full-spec USB-C extender of the same size should work.
The printed adapter — free on Thingiverse.

Honesty

This is a power adapter, not a reverse-engineered battery: it feeds the camera over USB-C rather than through the original contact base. It's a workaround born of necessity — if you print it, check the fit of your own USB-C extender and camera, and use it with sense. It rescued mine; I'm sharing it so it can rescue yours.

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