September 30, 2023
Description
A small gimbal to fix a Canon IXUS 80 digital camera at a quadcopter. The gimbal is damped with special rubber elements as they can be found in old hard drives (or printed by yourself e.g. with TPU filament).
Movement of the cam is done with a 9g servo (e.g. HXT900), coupled with a thin fishing cord to the moving gimbal part. Camera vibrations are kept low by the rubber elements.
IXUS camera has a tight fit in the housing, but can additionally be fixed with a screw at the bottom. USB and video plugs of the camera are accessible to connect for FPV video output and foto trigger via USB cable.
Complete Code is available in OpenSCAD, so other compact cameras can be easily adapted.
The complete thing prints great in PLA and works fine on my FPV 450 class DIY quadcopter.
Category: Camera
License:
Creative Commons — Attribution — Noncommercial
HenningS
