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Building: It is an ex-Locost - it has gone to the IOW!
posted on 5/11/17 at 09:22 AM
Looks like fun!
As an aside, I think your sound problem is due to mechanical noise coming up through the chassis/roll bar & into the camera. I mounted my camera
like this: simple camera mount - or at least a variation of it. This design is for 3D printing,
but it could easily be made out of 2 sheets of aluminium with holes drilled in the right place. Fix them together with 4 ear-plugs and watch the
improvements to picture sound and quality.
In my case, all chassis noise vanished, as did the wobbles in the video.
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Building: It is an ex-Locost - it has gone to the IOW!
posted on 5/11/17 at 12:39 PM
I have a few pictures - but I did mount my 2 plates on a custom-designed clamp that I created with my 3D printer. Don't let that stop you
though, as it's the 2 plates & ear-plugs that are the main components. camera mount 1 camera mount 2 camera mount 3
These pictures show my Mobius camera and its mount, but the idea works for most of these small cameras.
I'll post a video shortly that shows the results with this camera mount (I have to put it on YouTube first!).
The drone boys use damper bobbins, the benefit of these is that they are less likely to pull out
For extra security, being hollow it's possible to feed a fishing wire loop through the centre
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Building: It is an ex-Locost - it has gone to the IOW!
posted on 5/11/17 at 01:26 PM
Yes - the damper bobbins are ideal, but I was going for the cheap option to try out the idea. There are some good designs on Thingiverse that use
bobbins, but I got confused by the wide choice of stiffness available, so I went for the easy option.
Anyway - here's the video, although the quality on YouTube is cr*p - the original is 1080p, and I haven't yet found the trick to getting
them to use that resolution... UPDATE: It seems to have worked it out, although it still isn't as good as the original.
Most of it is boring, so just jump to the middle somewhere (13:30 is quite a good place! ) to get an idea of the steadiness and sound quality
(it's just the on-camera mic).
UPDATE: It seems to have worked it out, although it still isn't as good as the original. 
) to get an idea of the steadiness and sound quality
(it's just the on-camera mic). 
