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DIY Roll/Tilt FPV camera gimbal for Arducopter

Posted by Hugues on February 20, 2013 at 1:30pm

Hello,

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I was inspired by some simple commercial 2 axis camera gimbal to create my own, fully transparent in acrylic. For those who are interest I share the SVG file I drew to have the parts laser cut. See attachment below.

The pictures below show different views:

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You can download the SVG file here : gimbal1.zip

Edit : other dowload link for those who have problem with first one : gimbal1-alt%20svg%20format.zip

And a PDF version : gimbal1.pdf

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Hugues

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  • MR60
    Hugues December 9, 2013 at 10:45am

    Michael, thx, glad it helps. A suggestion for improvement would be to use metal gear servos. Indeed as you see in this design, one servo is attached to the first one only by its servo gear. With plastic gear you might have a little wobble.

  • Michael December 7, 2013 at 8:43pm

    excellent. thanks for the idea/inspiration. i'm going to start on a similar design right now. using wood as i have plenty on-hand.

  • MR60
    Hugues February 22, 2013 at 8:37am

    @Gary, I've added a pdf version in the post. Hope this works this time.

  • Gary Shainberg February 22, 2013 at 5:24am

    @hughes I have just tried again and the file opens OK but the opened image is just a mush of lines - if you could just save as a pdf that would be great

  • Gary Shainberg February 22, 2013 at 2:24am

    @hughes thanks for this and yes, I did unzip the file first and in fact can open it, but what shows on screen is a mush of lines and nothing that I can see useful.

    -G

  • MR60
    Hugues February 21, 2013 at 2:01pm

    @Gary: This design is made to use a small servo ; I use the HXT900 from Hextronik. For the file , did you first unzip the downloaded file ? I will try adding a second link in the blog post with another file format

  • Gary Shainberg February 21, 2013 at 11:33am

    Hugues, this looks great and I have a laser cutter so wanted to try and make one, however, when I try and open the svg file in Coral Draw for some reason it appears to look like a "graphic bomb" has gone off and its hard to see what needs cutting.

    Is there any chance you could let me have the file as a high resolution pdf or coral draw file.

    also what servo's do you suggest I use ?

    -Gary

  • MR60
    Hugues February 21, 2013 at 10:11am

    Agree, ABS would be a better material, but in the german factory where I order the laser cut, they do not offer the choice of this material.

    @Gary : nice these servos. Do they have 9g servos (I do not want big monsters) ?

  • Mauricio February 21, 2013 at 9:41am

    Nice!

    I highly recommmend using ABS plastic sheets instead of acrylic. It's way stronger, doesn't crack easily.

    You can get the sheets from servocity.com

  • Gary McCray February 20, 2013 at 4:19pm

    Really nice design Hugues.

    Those servos might be a little jerky though, on our mounts we've gone to metal gear digital to take out the jerk associated with the middle dead zone for stabilizing.

    My friend Oliver is going to try doing this using these servo bearing plates from Servo City: http://www.servocity.com/html/servoblocks.html

    It looks like you could just put 2 of them together to do pretty the same thing and they have an intermediate support bearing.

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