snrkl
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Friends, I am the proud owner of a new RunCam2 that I am thinking about strapping to my L1 cert attempt this weekend... (65mm airframe)
I have opened the box and now I am starting to think through mounting options...
To date, I have only used cheap $7 knock-off 808 cams, which were so cheap (and nasty, hence the RunCam2 purchase) that I haven't really worried about how the 808 clones were mounted, other than to whack 3-4 turns of blue masking tape to the rocket...
Now that I have a camera that runs into the ~$200 AUD (once you add a high speed 64GB microSD card into it), I am taking a little more care into thinking how I mount it.
The camera comes with a plastic snap enclosure, some velcro tabs and some "grippy" velcro wraps - when I was researching the purchase, I assumed that the snap enclosure's side slots would accomodate the grippy velcro tabs to pass through and under the camera, allowing a combination of velcro tabs on the outside of the rocket and enclosure, augmented with the grippy straps (where the inside of the strap is coated with sticky rubber).. This ultimately proved incorrect...
I have been looking at 3d printed shrouds from the usual suspects (additive aerospace and LiquidFyre) but none of them seem to have a product for the RunCam2...
So I ask for inputs (other than designing my own 3d printed shroud, as I have zero 3d printing experience and no access to a printer at present)..
I have been thinking this morning about using some epoxy clay to make a curved underside to the snap enclosure to increase surface area contact for velcro (or some other kind of adhesion source - inputs welcome) as the enclosures can be bought spare for under $10 AUD, so I could have several for different diameter bodies.
My issue is that velcro alone is not enough, and I don't think the giant grippy velcro strap will be very useful going over the top of the camera (rather than under it)
While composing this, I am thinking if I am making an epoxy clay moulded "curved inner" I could incorporate the strap there, but that would be getting into much more complex "sculpting" than I think I am looking for..
So at this point I open up to suggestions, noting that nothing I have built yet is into the size or complexity that would allow for a mounting inside the airframe..
Thoughts?
I have opened the box and now I am starting to think through mounting options...
To date, I have only used cheap $7 knock-off 808 cams, which were so cheap (and nasty, hence the RunCam2 purchase) that I haven't really worried about how the 808 clones were mounted, other than to whack 3-4 turns of blue masking tape to the rocket...
Now that I have a camera that runs into the ~$200 AUD (once you add a high speed 64GB microSD card into it), I am taking a little more care into thinking how I mount it.
The camera comes with a plastic snap enclosure, some velcro tabs and some "grippy" velcro wraps - when I was researching the purchase, I assumed that the snap enclosure's side slots would accomodate the grippy velcro tabs to pass through and under the camera, allowing a combination of velcro tabs on the outside of the rocket and enclosure, augmented with the grippy straps (where the inside of the strap is coated with sticky rubber).. This ultimately proved incorrect...
I have been looking at 3d printed shrouds from the usual suspects (additive aerospace and LiquidFyre) but none of them seem to have a product for the RunCam2...
So I ask for inputs (other than designing my own 3d printed shroud, as I have zero 3d printing experience and no access to a printer at present)..
I have been thinking this morning about using some epoxy clay to make a curved underside to the snap enclosure to increase surface area contact for velcro (or some other kind of adhesion source - inputs welcome) as the enclosures can be bought spare for under $10 AUD, so I could have several for different diameter bodies.
My issue is that velcro alone is not enough, and I don't think the giant grippy velcro strap will be very useful going over the top of the camera (rather than under it)
While composing this, I am thinking if I am making an epoxy clay moulded "curved inner" I could incorporate the strap there, but that would be getting into much more complex "sculpting" than I think I am looking for..
So at this point I open up to suggestions, noting that nothing I have built yet is into the size or complexity that would allow for a mounting inside the airframe..
Thoughts?