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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| warren | "It weighs so little that I just used duct tape to adhere a loop to the back. You probably don't want to cover the fake silver buttons as Mathew men..." | Read more » | almost 9 years ago | |||
| patcoyle | "Nice. Lower cost per mapping session is beneficial. Any additional details on approaches to attach camera? Thanks for pointing out note with commen..." | Read more » | almost 9 years ago | |||
| warren | "Yes, although we'd love to make an automated utility in WebGL to do this too, maybe automatically in Mapknitter: http://publiclab.org/notes/patcoyl..." | Read more » | almost 9 years ago | |||
| liz | "nice! do we have a simple workflow for processing the fisheye photos produced by Möbius into flatter images that can be stitched into maps? or is t..." | Read more » | almost 9 years ago | |||
| mathew | "awesome! what is the gunk you're using to attach the camera? just tape? " | Read more » | almost 9 years ago | |||
| TedF | "Thanks espero - nicely done, sorry the pulleys were too big to use - I too continue to struggle to find small ones and am wondering if I couldn't j..." | Read more » | over 9 years ago | |||
| espero | "TedF, could you upload a photo of the camera held to the picavet with its elastic bands? I've just tried to make a version of your Picavet using p..." | Read more » | over 9 years ago | |||
| eustatic | "sweet cup rig have you all seen that there's a waterproof case for mobius action cams that includes a heat disperser? i'm sure it costs as much ..." | Read more » | over 9 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "Hi Pat, The Wratten 87 passes only NIR; it's great for the NIR camera in a dual camera rig. The Wratten 25 is the best filter I have used for a sin..." | Read more » | over 9 years ago | |||
| patcoyle | "Chris, Nice rig. Great value. I like the results. Has there been discussion of the Wratten 87 polyester filter vs Wratten 25? " | Read more » | over 9 years ago | |||
| mathew | "cool flight test! it looks like its one of those cameras that takes a 640x480 image and upscales it to 1280x960. I've seen several of those. be..." | Read more » | over 9 years ago | |||
| natevw | "So the good news: the fishing reel (and bottom half of a rod) plus a two foot balloon is a real fun rig! Did not have any trouble with the ~10lb li..." | Read more » | over 9 years ago | |||
| natevw | "Thanks for the feedback everyone! I'd been traveling a lot lately and then catching up, so most of the equipment has been just sitting around. I'v..." | Read more » | over 9 years ago | |||
| cnr437 | "Hi there is a campaign for connecting more than one camera module to one raspberry pi therefore it can be solution for multiple camera applications..." | Read more » | over 9 years ago | |||
| warren | "I've recently used just a flag-shaped piece of foam core and a swivel to stabilize my Mobius (infragram p+s) and it worked pretty well, although I ..." | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| ajawitz | "I've tried using a small keychain camera for KAP and I basically just used a miniature version of the standard PET Bottle Rig- http://publiclab.org..." | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| mathew | "no, there aren't. sorry. I usually don't fly this rig and just go for the regular long-line version. " | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| bsugar | "In addition to those in the Flickr feed. " | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| bsugar | "Are there any instructions of this design or a larger quantity of detailed pictures? " | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| ajawitz | "Very True. In fact I'd have no other choice since my Printrbot Simple can only print about 4x4x4 anyway. Unfortunately, I won't be printing much ..." | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| mathew | "I flew the mobius on a redstone rig, but the rig was overkill--- weighing twice what the camera did. I bet just scaling it down to closer to the m..." | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| mathew | "on second thought I think the nylon monofilament will work if you have a good winder for it (I.E. fishing rod). go for at least 10lb. " | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| amysoyka | "Next step: Live streaming data from your balloons to the ground. ;) " | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| mathew | "Nice! John Wells and SNAPS are masters of this. You might enjoy their rigs and strategies: http://www.armadale.org.uk/snaps.htm " | Read more » | almost 10 years ago |