To take aerial photos, you need to attach your camera to a balloon, kite, pole, or whatever! Try the "standard" rubber band rig, the venerable soda bottle rig, or the juice jug rig. (above image via @mathew in this post) Activities Not all #photo-rig designs have been adapted into activities, but here are number that have been started: [activities:photo-rig] Questions [questions:photo-rig] (above image via @mathew in this post)...
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| cfastie | "Mathew, Your model is not loading. It says there is a "temporary" problem. I will try again later. " | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| mathew | "I made a 3D file from those images: https://recap360.autodesk.com/fireflyviewer/77a3022e96ca4a818ce8ef862aa65b35 I wasn't able to process the whol..." | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| taramei | "excited to try this " | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| mathew | "While we were hacking away on this, I tried two landscape mounts for the camera. Adding a small ball head to the top was pretty successful: T..." | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| mathew | "One precaution to prevent crushing the pole is to attach only to the double-thick area at the top of the tube. Right where the pole sections stack,..." | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| ranon | "@Ecta64 that's interesting, and it makes sense that the panorama would turn out that way since the bend at the top of the pole is rotating along wi..." | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| ranon | "That's good thinking Chris, I'll be adding a note in the instructions about the lanyard. I'll have to experiment with some plugs that might work, t..." | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "This looks like nicely elegant and simple solution. I might add two things: 1) a lanyard that connects the camera to the second smallest pole secti..." | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| ranon | "Thanks, Chris! I used a Fusion 360 model with the full assembly in the "wireframe with visible edges only" visual style and took screenshots, th..." | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "Ranon those are excellent assembly diagrams. Did you make those in Fusion 360? Is there a special mode for that? It looks like a week of work. Wel..." | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| ranon | "That looks good! To make the leg holes symmetrical, I've found the easiest way is to make a single hole and then mirror the "cut" command from the ..." | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "Thanks, that seems to work to open the f3d file (it's not done uploading it yet). I guess another way is for us to share the files at the Autodesk ..." | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| ranon | "The print looks great! For opening the .f3d file, there is a certain way you have to open it which I forgot to mention. Once you have made a pro..." | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "Fusion 360 did not allow me to open the f3d file. It said that opening local files was not supported. I was not expecting that. So I opened the mo..." | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| ranon | "You're welcome, let me know how it turns out! " | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "The new bulge looks perfect. I will give the new f3d file a spin tonight. Thanks. " | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| ranon | " I also had a chance to make some changes to the leg bracket, which I have updated in Thingiverse. The primary change I made was to the bulge in t..." | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| ranon | "Hi Chris, Glad you've found the UDEMY course helpful! Actually, there's been a very exciting new update for Fusion that lets you directly edit .st..." | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "That UDEMY course is very good. I have been watching videos and making the models as he does. I think there is hope. I still can't make any useful ..." | Read more » | over 7 years ago | |||
| ranon | "Hi Chris, Regarding the Fusion 360 tutorials, I have a former professor who recently published a free course teaching Fusion 360. Here's a link to..." | Read more » | almost 8 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "The print looks really good. There is plenty of room for the nuts. There are a few details that could be adjusted: I mentioned the leg holes shou..." | Read more » | almost 8 years ago | |||
| ranon | "Sure thing I'll extend those as far as they'll go. Look forward to hearing how it prints! " | Read more » | almost 8 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "Awesome. It is definitely beginning to look like a prop from a Marvel movie. The two leg holes do not seem to be very deep. Can they be extended al..." | Read more » | almost 8 years ago | |||
| ranon | "Thanks Chris! I designed a new leg support structure and uploaded the updated model. I designed the support structure using T-spline modeling (..." | Read more » | almost 8 years ago |