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Ideas.. ideas.. Sometimes I get ideas and they may not always be great ideas, but I how can you know until you try it out? Recently, I was at Toys-R-Us and came across this GYRO BOWL Spill Resistant Kids Gyroscopic Bowl.
The plastic bowl has a 2 axis gimbal system that allows the bowl to stay upright.
With some velcro I decided to attach my GoPro 2 and see if this bowl could be used as a camera gimbal system!
There wasn’t much engineering involved with these first tests. I was just curious how the first tests might look.
After only a few tests, I could see that the gimbal system was working but the camera was still rocking. There was nothing to slow down the rocking movement.
I mounted the camera on the bottom of the bowl with velcro so I wouldn’t wreck the bowl. But I hope this idea could inspire you to go make something!
Email me at QuickFX@knoptop.com with any ideas or video tutes of your own!
Thanks for watching!
Charles Sanson built a gyro bowl camera stablizer and got it to work!
He’s also got some other cool DIY camera gear on his channel.
CHECK IT OUT HERE
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CxFf_WW4rQ[/youtube]
Equipment used in this episode:
Gyro Bowl Camera – GoPro 2
Camera – Canon T2i
Lens – Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8-4
Audio – Zoom H1
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