Niall762
English weather sucks
A while back I asked how I could mount a gimbal to my tricopter, and after spending many hours (okay maybe not that long) thinking I came up with this. It works well I think, and lets me remove it fairly quickly, and importantly is very light weight! I'm getting no jello with this setup either.
I started with a cheap ebay gimbal designed for a phantom, the aluminium ones like this:
Then I stripped it down and rebuilt it using 3D printed parts from this website:
https://www.youmagine.com/designs/pl-tbs-gimbal-v1
Obviously I'm not using a tbs discovery so I later designed a piece that would attach to my tricopter.
From here I then designed and laser cut two sheets of 1/8" ply, one that would attach to my tricopter on nylon standoffs, and the other that would be isolated from it with the rubber ball things that came with the gimbal. I designed the holes on the bottom layer so they'd line up with bolts already there.
At the moment I only have a mobius, but found I could use a velcro strap for a gopro to mount it and just balanced it by sticking two two penny coins on the bottom.
I hope someone finds this useful!
Niall
I started with a cheap ebay gimbal designed for a phantom, the aluminium ones like this:
Then I stripped it down and rebuilt it using 3D printed parts from this website:
https://www.youmagine.com/designs/pl-tbs-gimbal-v1
Obviously I'm not using a tbs discovery so I later designed a piece that would attach to my tricopter.
From here I then designed and laser cut two sheets of 1/8" ply, one that would attach to my tricopter on nylon standoffs, and the other that would be isolated from it with the rubber ball things that came with the gimbal. I designed the holes on the bottom layer so they'd line up with bolts already there.
At the moment I only have a mobius, but found I could use a velcro strap for a gopro to mount it and just balanced it by sticking two two penny coins on the bottom.
I hope someone finds this useful!
Niall
