3D Printed GoPro Gimbal

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parkyi

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I've been looking for a decent Gimbal to mount my GoPro Hero 3 (Silver Edition). After a bit of searching I couldn't really find anything I fancied, so I proceeded to design my own in Solidworks, then printed the parts out on our 3D Printer at work (HP Designjet). The results are pretty good. It does look very heavy, but the good thing about 3D printing is that you can 'honeycomb' the internals of the parts to save material, which in this case is ABS, which in turn also saves weight. I've used proper roller bearings on both pitch and roll axis', Turnigy 9g Micro servo's and some welding rod to make the control rods. all in all it weighs approx. 200 grams, which in fairness is probably quite heavy, but I've already got MKII in mind and can strip a lot of weight off the next version, watch this space.

Here's a clip of first test:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Von4ffMPQ9I

Flight test to follow

Couple of Piccies here too:

http://www.multirotorforums.com/album.php?albumid=88&attachmentid=12704

http://www.multirotorforums.com/album.php?albumid=88&attachmentid=12705

Parky
 




mbsteed

mbsteed

aerial video centric
Nicely done - the concept is great - I have Rep2 printer. However, I note a lot of jitter in your test movements. Servos seems to introduce a lot of this, if you could use gears or belts it might take some of that out.
 

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