Hi Lee, Very interesting. Well done.
I used to make pan and tilt motor systems for my CCTV system, using the motors from the readily available motorised aerosol air fresheners (high torque after all the gearing). Both motors were inside readily available project boxes. All I did was drill a small hole in each drive shaft and secure it onto a round plate that either connected to the other motors box or a camera mount. The weight these units could carry was quite impressive. One motor turned the other so to speak. At the time I had no funds for buying expensive ready made pan and tilt units, so the motors were DC, I controlled the speed of them with a 5W or so low resistance variable resistor from a Tannoy system's speaker volume control. (20 Ohms?) I had a microswitch joystick 'crosswired' between two switches so that it fed the low Voltage one way or the other, depending on the direction it was pushed for each motor. If anyone wants any more details so they can use it in conjunction with Lee's design, I am more than happy to share the simple designs I made with others. I do have several CCTV camera's now that are RS485 controlled PTZ (pan & tilt + zoom) and much better quality than most of my standard definition camera's ever were. The only downside to using HD camera's (for HD) in this situation might be a problem, as the video is designed to be pumped onto a hard drive or memory card, streaming over USB is not the best for HD video I've found. Still, brilliant work and a lot of effort has gone into Lee's project. Regards, Neil. On 20 May 2011 17:38, Lee Menningen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I recently did a home shop project of making a way to mount several cameras > in an unusual place that is somewhat inaccessible. The completed bracket > allows for mounting cameras on a pan/tilt unit, remotely adjusting zoom, > providing wireless sound, and remote start/stop recording. Three youtube > videos show how the brackets were made and how they are electrically > connected. > > You might be interested because they are rather unusual. No one else is > ever > going to make one like these, I'm sure, but it may give you some ideas. > > Part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPcr96oe8V8 > > Part 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEfzB219m4w > > Part 3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUKfMt7BRn8 > > By the way, I've also mounted these pan/tilts on a tripod and used this > connection technique at a wedding where they didn't want a cameraman around > the ceremony but allowed a tripod on the platform. Being up front facing > the > audience, it provided some great footage of the facial expressions during > the vows. > > Lee > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
