magnetman 0 Posted February 17, 2009 Report Share Posted February 17, 2009 Hi all, This is my latest attempt at a pan/retract camera (KX 141)assembly on on my Ehawk, the idea is to have an unrestricted view downwards and be able to pan 360. Waiting for weather to air test! http://www.vimeo.com/3225257 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mr.RC-Cam 129 Posted February 17, 2009 Report Share Posted February 17, 2009 That is nice work. How about some details of the mechanics? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
magnetman 0 Posted February 19, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 19, 2009 (edited) That is nice work. How about some details of the mechanics? Yep, that will be coming, some close ups but I have a very unwell Canon Powershot at the moment. The hardest part was making the Pan servo, which has a geared down feedback pot. The servo is a GWS NARO micro servo, with gears from a broken NARO servo used for feed back to the pot. The whole camera and pan servo assembly is mounted transversely to a waypoint metal geared servo for retract. The camera casing and pan servo casing are made from 2mm ABS sheet, lovely stuff to work with. More soon Edited February 19, 2009 by magnetman Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Patrick 0 Posted March 19, 2009 Report Share Posted March 19, 2009 Hi all, This is my latest attempt at a pan/retract camera (KX 141)assembly on on my Ehawk, the idea is to have an unrestricted view downwards and be able to pan 360. Waiting for weather to air test! http://www.vimeo.com/3225257 Hi Magnetman, could you please tell me where can i buy that pan/retract system?. Thank you. Regards Patrick Quote Link to post Share on other sites
magnetman 0 Posted April 16, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2009 Hi Magnetman, could you please tell me where can i buy that pan/retract system?. Thank you. Regards Patrick Hi Patrick, You can't buy it - I made it up myself. When I get time I will publish some details, it is not that hard to do if you are nimble fingered! The camera system is out of the aircraft at the moment - I forgot to retract it in time for landing and broke the retract servo gears, so will do some photos for now. The most dificult part to make was the 360 deg pan servo, where I used gears from another servo to gear down the feed back pot. magnetman Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bsfixit 0 Posted June 21, 2009 Report Share Posted June 21, 2009 That looks really nice.. I can't wait to see how you made it.. is it controlled by head movement or by sticks... looks great! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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