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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 »

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