September 17, 2007

Gyro Stabilized Camera

Chris Anderson was lucky enough to visit the Google campus and took some arial pictures with a digital camera mounted to an RC plane. To enhance the picture taking capability of the rig he decided to make a gyro stabilized system to mount the camera onto. Video after the jump. “The secret ingredient is an off-the-shelf “heading hold” gyro made for a R/C helicopter. These can be found for as