Building a stabilized camera mount…
After being inspired from watching the video I posted yesterday, I decided to do a bit of research on building my own digitally stabilized camera mount. My first problem I had was finding a way to sense movement so I can correct the movement. Like what the video preluded, the gyrostabilized camera mount used gyroscopes. Although this does work, gyroscopes are not cheap especially since you need to have at least a dual axis gyroscope sensor. And, then you have to interpret the gyroscope data which isn’t easy. So, after a bit of searching, I found a sensor called an inclinometer. An inclinometer detects the angle at which the sensor is tilted off level. With a dual axis inclinometer, I can then find the tilt of a plane which will let me stabilize and level the plane using servos. I am thinking maybe an accelerometer might be useful as well to determine the speed of the correction. Besides the sensors, I still need to figure out how exactly I am going to physically build this thing, and how to do the robotic stuff.
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