A third hand for my camera - prototyping a flexible camera arm
To help my with filming my projects and get a better quality, I’ve built a simple arm to hold the camera over my workbench.
It looks ugly but this is a prove of concept and If it works out I think I will redo it in nice at some point. But for the moment it fullfills its job and work.
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The four main parts are all 40cm long (a bit over 15 inch). The arm can extend quite a bit with this. I originally planned on adding some springs or strings with weights to hold it up, but my camera (iPhone) is so light it is not needed.
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Thing to make better for the next time:
- Nicer wood ;-)
- Needs to have another axis to rotate around (at the bottom where the camera is attached)
- Camera needs to be hold better - it can slide out.