Pan/til camera through gyro

I found this video today through Digg.com: http://www.therawfeed.com/2006/09/vr-ge … t-toy.html

It shows a movie made from a radio control airplane through a wireless (of course) downlink. This has been done before, but the nice thing is that the pan/tilt from the camera is done by the pilot by moving his head.

He has a gyro and some other hardware mounted on his video goggles. The system is connected to 2 channels on his transmitter. The transmitter sends the correct signals to the receiver in the plane which moves the pan/tilt servos accordingly. This gyro system is available from RC-Tech (http://www.rc-tech.ch/web/index.php?pag … 26&lang=en) for about US$ 400.

I was wondering if it is really hard to make something like this yourself? Anyone that can come up with ideas?

JD

holeee crap (or should I say sacre merde…)

I want one. that is the coolest thing I’ve seen in a while. the video is amazingly good. this is like military quality stuff.

Yeah, the quality of the video is top notch!

It’s a pitty that you need a ‘technician license’ to be allowed to use the kind of power this guy uses.

This guy sells 500mw tx/rx systems (kits) for US$ 110 + shipping: http://www.aeropix.ch/store/

You need to provide an antenna yourself. With a good patch antenna, he was able to receive a good signal from 2 miles away. Sometime soon he will come out with a diversity system which should give even better results.

Nobody with information about how to do the movement of the camera with a gyro? Maybe someone has seen something similar to this system?

JD

Looks like this thread has the guy(s) behind it discussing & explaining it. I haven’t read much of the thread yet, but from what I have read it looks like it should have everything you want:

http://www.rc-cam.com/forum/index.php?s … c=870&st=0

That entire site looks like it’s a goldmine for this kind of stuff.

Thanks nutter!

shiny