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| mathew | "@Ranon and I went out flying last night, and with the gusty conditions had trouble getting the panorama more than a few feet off the ground-- our 9..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "This is a really helpful report. You broke some new ground (but no cameras) and added lots of good information. You might be right that the line j..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| mathew | "I was able to download the mesh from 123D catch. If it proves equivalent, then maybe that's the free way to get the model. We'll have to ask duri..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| hagitkeysar | "I love the distorted grass image. " | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| mathew | "Of these options, the rubber band holds the firmest-- simplest and cheapest, though rather ugly looking. @cfastie's points about pins are good one..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| tonyc | "The other option was the zip tie only method from all my little pendulum rig notes. You snug up a zip tie as tight as you can, then slide if off th..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| tonyc | "another thought is using a rubber band wrapped around the dowel, then clamped with a small zip tie. The combination of pressure from the tie on the..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "Wooden dowels are widely available, but they also vary widely in quality. Oak and sometimes maple dowels are fairly reliable and birch, poplar, and..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| ranon | "Thanks for the input Chris! The reason I have been using wooden dowels is for their wide availability (can be consistently found at any craft, har..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "With some rig/camera combinations and with certain wind conditions any of these techniques could work. I might use any of them if I assembled the r..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| mathew | "Your suggestion is to continuously pan, and then increment the tilt? That is sensible. One reason why we were doing a separate pan and tilt mechan..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| cfastie | "A weakness of spring powered, egg timer powered, or rubber band powered KAP rigs is that they don't stop panning to take each photo. As long as the..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| mathew | "that is a very heavy tail. I got a similar recommendation of putting a 15' fuzzy tail on the levitation over at the KAP forums: http://arch.ced.be..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| mathew | "The wire might not be visible, but I had the wire through the PVC, and wrapped the line around that. It worked great. " | Read more » | over 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 » | over 8 years ago | |||
| tonyc | "For oblique shots, there's a simple way to hang a miniball tripod head off the bottom of a pendulum. Did you use the wire to connect the PVC to t..." | Read more » | over 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 » | over 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 » | over 8 years ago | |||
| cfastie | " I kinda like the switch on the Riffle and now I know that it is something to pay more attention to. But I guess it adds much more complexity that ..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| donblair | "Chris, This is such a beautiful project! The lapse rate calculation is so fun to see. Quick reactions: That power switch goof is annoying. I w..." | Read more » | over 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 » | over 8 years ago | |||
| ranon | "@cfastie What illustrations from this model could help you with your instructions? " | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| dbenjamin | "@eustatic thanks for the notice. I deleted the whole map, I'll try to come back to it when I have more time. " | Read more » | almost 9 years ago | |||
| eustatic | "hey, d great work here I noticed that your mapknitter of this project was stalling https://mapknitter.org/exports maybe because you've got 131 p..." | Read more » | almost 9 years ago |