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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