Anycopter Camera Rig. RCexplorer style.

by XFlyer | July 14, 2013 | (0) Posted in Projects

The camera I am using is the Sony action cam as15 with the David Windestal tricopter. My editing software tends to reduce the resolution and frames of my video so I will be getting better results in the future

I have fought vibrations for what feels like forever. When I saw Flitetest's Anycopter isolated camera rig I had to make one. The design itself is dead-simple to build, it's just some stranded steel wire and some solder, then you're away. 

Above are my results from using their rig and I was really impressed (look at my other video's from what it was before-these will be in the related articles below). It got rid of nearly every little bit of vibration and I was gob-smacked.

Basically I just drilled four holes in my frame and angled them fowards like below (sorry for the poor quality, it was taked with my iPhone).

 The wire I used was 3mm. Cut it to Your desired length, then add flux to each end and solder the tips together after threading through holes.

All I need to do now is just put some material underneath the camera to remove some of those higher frequency vibrations. 

I then used some hot glue dots to prevent the whole unit from sliding round.

Overall I am proud of my results, but I still feel there is room for improvement. The next step is to invest in some FPV so I can go higher and further away without loosing orientation which is a pain...

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kah00na on August 5, 2013
What size of landing gear do you have on your tricopter? I have one that looks to be about the same size but I have no idea on the size I should order. Yours looks great.
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XFlyer on August 5, 2013
500.
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DeValk on August 2, 2013
I had that same crash with my first Rcexplorer Tricopter. Also like you I rebuilt and spent the next several months chasing vibrations. I found mounting a plate larger then the kk board with 4 posts on it and suspending the board in elastic bands enabled mine to fly really good even without balancing the props or motors. From there I got a really good magnetic prop balancer and spent some time getting all of the props balanced. Then I balanced the motors using the laser method with zip ties around the motors. Now I like flying mine more then ever and have recently started doing FPV flying, wait till you start doing that. I'm glad to see you didn't give up and kept at it your heli is flying great keep it up.
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XFlyer on August 3, 2013
I used that technique for my old quadcopter, but I always had a wobble and no matter what I did with the KK2 P&I gains and limits I just could get the thing to fly. I am basically just getting rid of the vibrations for my camera. Dad and I have been looking for something to start FPV with, we just need to get around to ordering it...
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Anycopter Camera Rig. RCexplorer style.