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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| mathew | "The original Rig design is by Simon Harbord, Simon_H on the KAP Forums http://arch.ced.berkeley.edu/kap/discuss/index.php?p=/profile/7/Simon%20H T..." | Read more » | almost 8 years ago | |||
| ranon | "Thanks Chris! I'll reverse that nylon insert nut. Yes it does! That's one of the great features in Fusion 360, there's a plug-in that actually let..." | Read more » | almost 8 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "That looks really good. The components look just like the ones I use. I think the nut might be reversed. The nylon insert nut has the nylon part on..." | Read more » | almost 8 years ago | |||
| ranon | "Hi Chris, Just made a couple changes to the Saturn V model and they should be all updated to Thingiverse. Are these the correct components and ..." | Read more » | almost 8 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "Ranon, This is really excellent stuff. That's a great idea to use exploded diagrams for assembly instructions. The Saturn V Rig has a few places ..." | Read more » | almost 8 years ago | |||
| ranon | "@cfastie What illustrations from this model could help you with your instructions? " | Read more » | almost 8 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "Oh, I like that idea of including some parts in the mapping kits so the user can get started attaching their camera. That could be a nice touch. I ..." | Read more » | about 8 years ago | |||
| tonyc | "Good points. the main thrust of developing extreme low cost rigs is to be able to add them easily to the existing Balloon kit and kite kits, offeri..." | Read more » | about 8 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "Thanks, Tony. I suspect there is going to be great variability in the rotation depending on wind, kite, camera mass, suspension (Picavet vs pendulu..." | Read more » | about 8 years ago | |||
| tonyc | " This is hacky as all getout, but the general idea of a rig for oblique panos from a kit box is one that @mathew mocked up recently, and this s..." | Read more » | about 8 years ago | |||
| tonyc | "I wonder how much motion it would get on a simple flight without jostling it at all. This is such a great idea, allowing for chaotic energy to get ..." | Read more » | about 8 years ago | |||
| tonyc | "I wanted to verify the paperclip wasn't in danger of shorting anything out inside the camera, so opened it up to find it can come in contact with t..." | Read more » | about 8 years ago | |||
| warren | "Wow, that's great, and so elegant! I'd never noticed that hole. " | Read more » | about 8 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "Thanks Tony, I like the idea of a universal ball head instead of a hinge. That would make it easier to switch between nadir and oblique when using..." | Read more » | about 8 years ago | |||
| tonyc | "These are both great, and an excellent video summary of the questions you are facing here. My mind goes into a place of splitting the designs into..." | Read more » | about 8 years ago | |||
| patcoyle | "Nice work. Tradeoffs on user's part on complexity will be in order as to which route will make most sense for them. " | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| tonyc | "Awesome ideas, y'all! Mainly I was trying to get the protection centered on the lens, and to get the thing to roll, not resist with rigid protectio..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "McMaster Carr sells aluminum strips 1/16" thick in widths between 1 1/2" and 2" (in various lengths). So a one foot long piece would cost less than..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "I like Pat's idea of bolting through a juice bottle. Removing the neck of the bottle could allow good access to the camera, but the bottle shoul..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| patcoyle | "Tony, I looked at the note in email before I saw the comments from Chris. I like the innovative thinking. The drop test is cool I'd second the poi..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "That's an awesome crash test. I think taking advantage of the tripod socket is a really good idea. The little tripod head you use is more than you ..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| eustatic | "I honestly hadn't seen this! Great minds! http://publiclab.org/notes/eustatic/03-12-2014/floating-camera-rig " | Read more » | almost 9 years ago | |||
| ajawitz | "I've been a major advocate for the Mobius in everything from Kite Aerial Photography to UAVs to even using it underwater! As for the lens distort..." | Read more » | almost 9 years ago | |||
| pablo | "@Liz: I always use @eustatic research note data for distorting Mobius Action Cam imagery in GIMP (FOSS). For batch processing we should use GIMP b..." | Read more » | almost 9 years ago |