Building a Gyro Cam Mount

[BigB]

I will test with a GoPro for ya...

 

[xxMax Powerxx]

Freaking sweet! I love it when people innovate in their garages.

 

[quicksparks]

That footage turned out really well! Did you do any modifications to your Contour HD to improve sound quality?

 

[McFlyz Duc]

Very nice, subscribed

 

[llenta]

That footage turned out really well! Did you do any modifications to your Contour HD to improve sound quality?

Nope. That is just my good old 720p Contour HD. I want a GPS model, but I'm going to wait until they blow them out for cheap.

I will test with a GoPro for ya...

If there is a tripod mount for a GoPro, you can be the first one.

 

[MotoWhip101]

looks like the new servo did the trick that looks really good!!!

If there is a tripod mount for a GoPro, you can be the first one.

They do and you guys can gladly use the tripod mount I have if you don't want to buy one.

 

[Canadianjerkey]

That's pretty sweet.

 

[DailyDrivenS30]

You can get a flat piece of steel or something and put a gopro sticky mount on it. Used that bolt with two jam nuts and wahla! Or you can complicate it and do some fancy bending and welding. I as well am down to test something like this with a gopro.

 

[Krooklyn]

What sort of cost do you estimate you have in all this?

Good job BTW. Second video looks much better than first one.

 

[rjbrittain11]

simply amazing

 

[415Triumph]

 

[RhythmRider]

Wow, that's great! I can't wait to see what you can do with it

 

[Entoptic]

OP if you would like me to start my own thread I will but I wanted to add my project that was inspired by you.

I mentioned earlier that I bought some Wii Motion + controllers from ebay. They finally arrived from Hong Kong and check it out! It was a total cost of 24 dollars...... so far.....

I gutted them and will be using the gyro controller inside for my build. I hopefully will have updated pictures tomorrow of the arduino/servo/gyro working as one.

 

[That Guy]

Dude get a GoPro mount for it and I will buy it.........

 

[llenta]

Its fitted with a standard tripod screw. Anything that takes a standard 1/4-20 will fit.

 

[That Guy]

Fab up a plate that bolts right to the servo with a 90 deg bend on top to mount to. I think the ball mount is big and unneeded

 

[llenta]

I thought about that for a while, but I couldn't come up with a suitable solution. I knew I wanted to keep it small to reduce the amount of strain on the servo unit. The gear that comes out of the servo is not a shape that anything can pass over. It has a beveled edge so that all the pieces (that your supposed to use with it) can have a firm hold on the gear. So I worked from there. I don't know of anything off the top of my head that has the same shape, so I had to work with what would fit over (and work with) the servo.

I would like to make this as small as possible, but I think that the screw and RAM ball will be just fine. The screw actually provides support for when you hit all those pot holes out on the roads. Lets face it, the tail takes quite a beating when riding on public roads. I am going to cover the bottom of the screw with rubber and put it in a case so that it doesn't touch the moto plastics If this setup only saw smooth racetracks, then floating the camera might be an option, but I quickly learned that you can't do that on the highway.

I do need to pick up another RAM ball mount because when I drilled this one, I didn't get it perfectly straight. I just figured I would give it a shot and see if it worked. Since it did (quite well actually), I will pick up another one and make sure to get it perfect this time. I will turn the sensitivity down on the gyro just a tad as it looks like its over compensating just a bit and put this all together in a portable(ish) package and give it another shot the next dry weekend.

 

[That Guy]

I can fabricate a bracket that will and can be the same shape as the servo mount with a 90 deg bend that you can mount the camera to. Any camera.... I will see if I can get free time in the shop and make up a quick one for idea's

 

[Entoptic]

I thought about that for a while, but I couldn't come up with a suitable solution. I knew I wanted to keep it small to reduce the amount of strain on the servo unit. The gear that comes out of the servo is not a shape that anything can pass over. It has a beveled edge so that all the pieces (that your supposed to use with it) can have a firm hold on the gear. So I worked from there. I don't know of anything off the top of my head that has the same shape, so I had to work with what would fit over (and work with) the servo.

I would like to make this as small as possible, but I think that the screw and RAM ball will be just fine. The screw actually provides support for when you hit all those pot holes out on the roads. Lets face it, the tail takes quite a beating when riding on public roads. I am going to cover the bottom of the screw with rubber and put it in a case so that it doesn't touch the moto plastics If this setup only saw smooth racetracks, then floating the camera might be an option, but I quickly learned that you can't do that on the highway.

I do need to pick up another RAM ball mount because when I drilled this one, I didn't get it perfectly straight. I just figured I would give it a shot and see if it worked. Since it did (quite well actually), I will pick up another one and make sure to get it perfect this time. I will turn the sensitivity down on the gyro just a tad as it looks like its over compensating just a bit and put this all together in a portable(ish) package and give it another shot the next dry weekend.

They sell a ram ball mount with the universal camera screw built in!

http://www.ram-mount.com/CatalogRes...d/082065077045066045050051055085/Default.aspx

Or you can just do this

http://www.ram-mount.com/Portals/0/Skins/NationalProducts/images/acameramount2.jpg

Also you can use servo mounts for robotics to achieve a nice mounting bracket for the servo. Just google servo bracket or servo mount.

http://servocity.com/html/servo_mounts.html

 

[llenta]

They sell a ram ball mount with the universal camera screw built in!

http://www.ram-mount.com/CatalogRes...d/082065077045066045050051055085/Default.aspx

I have that mount, problem is that there is no way to attach this to the servo. I found it easier to put a universal camera screw into the RAM ball then it would be to some how find a way to secure a (mostly) rubber ball to the servo.

Or you can just do this

http://www.ram-mount.com/Portals/0/Skins/NationalProducts/images/acameramount2.jpg

I tried something similar to that (not that exact mount). Problem is that it sticks out too much and puts too much weight on the servo. When the bike was bouncing up and down on the pavement it damaged the servo.