Tag: stabilization - Eric Cheng
Eric Cheng

Tag: stabilization

Brushless gimbals, which are now commonplace for stabilizing video in the air, can also be used on the ground in interesting ways. Photographer Thomas O’Brien took me over Taylor Pass near Aspen, Colorado, today in his highly-modified Toyota Tacoma, and we had some fun by attaching a gimbal-stabilized GoPro to various areas of the car. ...

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5pyZ3JGFhU?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=250&h=141] sUAS News has posted a fascinating article about Aleksey Zaitsevsky’s work with force servos, which can be used to stabilize cameras and vehicles without requiring knowledge of the payload position. This could have an interesting effect on RC hobby and robotics control, in the future. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

The high-end MōVI stabilized camera system is based on the same brushless gimbals we use for stabilized aerial imaging work. I put this handheld GoPro HERO3 gimbal together in just a few minutes using a Rotorpixel HERO3 gimbal (http://rotorpixel.com), an Opteka X-Grip, 2S LiPo battery, 4 x AA battery housing, and a servo tester. (Source: ...

Who says brushless gimbals need to be attached to multirotor aircraft? I took a Rotorpixel HERO3 brushless gimbal and adapted it into a handheld GoPro stabilization system by adding an Opteka X-Grip, 2S LiPo battery, 4 x AA battery housing, and servo tester. Freefly Systems made news at NAB this year by announcing the MōVI, a high-end, stabilized camera platform ...

I set up a Rotorpixel Gimbal Hero 3 today (made specifically for the GoPro HERO3 camera), and it is totally awesome.  The GoPro Hero 3 camera just snaps into the camera mount, and the whole gimbal can be powered off of the auxiliary power lead on a DJI Phantom quadcopter. The isolation mount is flexible, so ...

Ray of No Mo Jello wire isolation mounts sent me a new (larger-than-usual) isolation mount to use on my DJI Phantom quadcopter in conjunction with a quadframe.com 2-axis gimbal. I ended up getting them to work together, but not using the standard GoPro mounting holes on the DJI Phantom frame. The problem with mounting gimbals using the two default screw ...

The previous post contains pictures of my DJI Phantom quadcopter with the quadframe.com 2-axis gimbal for GoPro attached. The footage is straight from my GoPro HERO 3 camera, with no stabilization in post, and you can see that the orientation correction from the servos is a bit jittery. I’m flying around pretty aggressively, here. Tomorrow, I’ll take the quad for ...

Quadframe 2-axis gimbal on DJI Phantom

I finally assembled my quadframe.com 2-axis gimbal for GoPro (€46.00, not including servos) and mounted it to my DJI Phantom quadcopter. My friend, Keri Wilk, warns me that I will not like a servo-controlled gimbal because the new brushless gimbals are so good, but all of this is a learning experience for me, and it’s worth trying out ...