Prototype, single sided, single motor pan & tilt AutoKAP rig in mid development stage.
This is my first experiment with kite photography.
The rig uses a modified S3003 servo, Technic Lego 24 and 8 tooth gears, two worm gears and a 555 timer circuit to provide pan and tilt actions.
Eight cycles of the pan axis gives a single cycle of the tilt axis.
The timer circuit is fully adjustable, currently driving for 2 seconds and pausing for 2 seconds. The plan is to synchronise this with a CHDK intervalometer.
Total weight approximately 400g including camera and all batteries.
MUSIC:
Mainsail (Momentary Sound Action) courtesy of YouTube Audioswap.
Thanks for your comment, I still have some fine tuning to do.
The camera is heavy at the battery end, I can add spacers between the timer enclosure/battery box and the frame to ballance things out side to side, I can also make the camera slide back and forth to ballance it that way.
I was careful to pivot the tilt axis through the CofG of the camera, and am happy with that.
jumbocruiser 2 years ago
The swing of the picavet seems to show that the weight is not balanced.
scottdunnTUBEYOU 2 years ago