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Fixed Wing Gimbal?

Posted by Jon Reacher on February 1, 2017 at 4:13pm

I've been trying to find a simple roll compensating gimbal (single axis or compact 2 axis) to mount a camera inside a payload bay. It seems if you want to use anything larger than a GoPro the gimbals are huge 2 and 3 axis things.

I'm trying to keep the camera pointing down for mapping. Does anyone know of something simple and preferably compact that could handle, say, a mirrorless camera?

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Jon Reacher February 1, 2017 at 7:26pm

Somehow "mapping" and "gimbal" didn't turn these up in all of my searching. I think my google's broken. Yea, I was looking at the direct drive type and I think that drove my search in wrong directions also.

I was even looking at Dennis Baldwins videos earlier as well and didn't see this.

Thanks a lot!
Greg Fletcher February 1, 2017 at 6:40pm

There are lots of mapping gimbals, servo driven not the direct drive brushless. ArduPlane controls the servos directly. You just need to set it up. google "mapping gimbal".

http://appliedaeronautics.com/Flat-Mapping-Gimbal_p_4.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ic8bCdB8RkM

Oh, I correct myself, there is a brushless one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi9T0TOQemw
andrew cutter February 1, 2017 at 6:21pm

I believe its called a flat map gimbal . http://appliedaeronautics.com/Flat-Mapping-Gimbal_p_4.html . Their is more than one mfg of this type of gimbals

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