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Photo Rig

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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.

Activities

Not all the designs have been adapted into activities, but here are number that have been:

Purpose Category Status Author Time Difficulty Replications
Mobius cameras and smaller balloons - - @warren - - 0 replications: Try it »
Reconfigurable Rig Version 1 Assembly Guide - - @ranon - - 0 replications: Try it »
KAP Rig for Mobius Action Cam - - @ajawitz - - 0 replications: Try it »
Raspberry Pi Camera Rig - - @seankmcginnis - - 1 replications: Try it »
Floating camera rig build - @eustatic - - 0 replications: Try it »
Rubber band and PET bottle camera rig build complete @mathew 1h easy 4 replications: Try it »
Add GPS logging to a Saturn V Rig build - @cfastie - medium 0 replications: Try it »
Titan 2 IR flight field-test - @cfastie - - 0 replications: Try it »
The JerkPan design - @cfastie - - 0 replications: Try it »
Child-led R&D of camera rigs for mapping - - @molangmuir10 - - 0 replications: Try it »
KAP rig impasse - - @cfastie - - 0 replications: Try it »
Make a $25 minimal-helium balloon mapping rig - - @natevw - - 0 replications: Try it »
A sweet way to attach a camera to a kite or balloon line - - @cfastie - - 0 replications: Try it »
"Judo Rig" for aerial photography - - @tonyc - - 0 replications: Try it »
Kaptery Rig Remodel - - @ranon - - 0 replications: Try it »
Silly Putty KAP Rig - - @ranon - - 0 replications: Try it »
Ball Joint KAP Rigs - - @ranon - - 0 replications: Try it »
Reconfigurable Rig - - @ranon - - 0 replications: Try it »
Hand Assembled Pendulums - - @ranon - - 0 replications: Try it »
Make a lightweight camera rig from corrugated plastic or cardboard - - @warren - - 0 replications: Try it »
3-camera rig testing with with CHDK - - @patcoyle - - 0 replications: Try it »
Constructing a <£2, 90g wooden/metal picavet - - @TedF - - 0 replications: Try it »
The BRIT camera rig - - @jbest - - 0 replications: Try it »
Reconfigurable Rig Pole Configuration and GitHub Repository - - @ranon - - 0 replications: Try it »
Plastic Tubing Oblique KAP Rig - - @ranon - - 0 replications: Try it »
Square Plastic Rod KAP Rig - - @ranon - - 0 replications: Try it »
The Aerobee Rig field-test - @cfastie - - 0 replications: Try it »
Build a juice bottle-based rig to carry two cameras build review-me @warren 1h easy 0 replications: Try it »
Evolution of a Picavet - - @jbreen - - 0 replications: Try it »
Follow up on faucet cover camera enclosure - - @patcoyle - - 0 replications: Try it »
super simple KAP mount with small tripod and velcro strap - - @gonzoearth - - 0 replications: Try it »
Double Faucet Cover Rig for or infragram - - @eustatic - - 0 replications: Try it »
quick and dirty lanyard attachment for mobius camera - - @tonyc - - 0 replications: Try it »
FABAoutfit for vertical KAP and BAP - - @Juan - - 0 replications: Try it »
laser-cut picavet for PET bottle rig - - @mathew - - 0 replications: Try it »
Notes on assembling an Aerobee Rig build - @mathew - easy 0 replications: Try it »
Yet another soda bottle camera house - - @gonzoearth - - 0 replications: Try it »
Picavet PET rig - - @mathew - - 0 replications: Try it »
Gowanus Canal Salt Lot Kite Mapping - - @eymund - - 0 replications: Try it »
FABAoutfit derivative KAP rig - - @jbreen - - 0 replications: Try it »
The ShowerKAP - - @cfastie - - 0 replications: Try it »
Homemade pole photography rig - - @Shannon - - 0 replications: Try it »
Wobble adjustments for simple juice bottle rig - - @warren - - 0 replications: Try it »
a cheap picavet for any shooting angle - - @mathew - - 0 replications: Try it »
John Wells Near IR conversion for 808 HD Cams - - @mathew - - 0 replications: Try it »

Activities should include a materials list, costs and a step-by-step guide to construction with photos. Learn what makes a good activity here.

Updates

Much of the work that's been posted on this topic hasn't yet been adapted into activities, but we hope to slowly "update" it to get it into the Activities listing above:

Title Author Updated Likes Comments
Child-led R&D of camera rigs for mapping @molangmuir10 over 5 years ago 4
Build a Raspberry Pi Zero aerial photo rig @warren over 5 years ago 5
Airpup: designing a kite balloon @mathew about 6 years ago 9
Make a lightweight camera rig from corrugated plastic or cardboard @warren over 6 years ago 3
Aerial Photogrammetry Test at Amboy Crater, CA @DevanHarlan almost 7 years ago 10
Redstone Rig 2.0 @cfastie over 7 years ago 3
A sweet way to attach a camera to a kite or balloon line @cfastie over 7 years ago 3
What's the best way to attach a camera to a balloon? @warren over 7 years ago 2
Rubber band and PET bottle camera rig @mathew almost 7 years ago 2
Build a juice bottle-based rig to carry two cameras @warren almost 8 years ago 0
Add GPS logging to a Saturn V Rig @cfastie almost 8 years ago 1
Reconfigurable Rig Pole Configuration and GitHub Repository @ranon over 8 years ago 10
Reconfigurable Rig Version 1 Assembly Guide @ranon over 8 years ago 3
Flight report: Aerobee Rig panoramas and pratfalls @mathew over 8 years ago 3
Flight Report @ranon over 8 years ago 5
Friction Stoppers @ranon over 8 years ago 6
Hand Assembled Pendulums @ranon over 8 years ago 0
Outlining needed kite tutorials @mathew over 8 years ago 5
Electronics-Free Automated Pan Mechanisms @ranon over 8 years ago 0
Reconfigurable Rig @ranon over 8 years ago 0
Making the aluminum frame of an aerial camera rig (video) @cfastie over 8 years ago 7
The Aerobee Rig @cfastie over 8 years ago 6
ideal mechanisms & silly putty camera rig @mathew over 8 years ago 2
Aerial Photography Rigging Needs @mathew over 8 years ago 0

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