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Selfie stick and 360 camera on the wing

Dvalcik

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I got a Insta360 3x for Christmas from my son. I have been working on a selfie stick that mounts to the outside handle of the wing. I have seen various versions with brackets that uses the screws on the wing tips of the RV. Since the RV12 does not have screw attached wing tips I had to get creative. The bracket is a simple clamp that attaches to the wing handle. I made the stick out of conduit and created a plug with the bolt to attach the camera.

The attached YouTube video and pictures are the flight tests with the latest mounting version after tryin a few ideas. It is very solid, stable, and easy to attach.

The Insta360 3x camera and the editing software from Insta is very slick. The nice thing about the 360 video is you chose where you want in frame when editing so you alway have the shot and direction you want. :)

A short YouTube video - once around the pattern for flight testing.

https://youtu.be/mmldmQyrlls
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That’s pretty cool. I want one!

I like how it gives the appearance of the camera being detached from the plane and of course the 360 view
 
Nice

That's cool. Yours is quite a bit fancier than the foam pad and zip ties version I "rigged" up. These 360 cameras are pretty nifty technology. The couple of externally-mounted videos I've tried tend to show blob artifacts of the zip ties and foam padding material. :)

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I have a Rock Steady for a GoPro mounted on the left wingtip of my RV-9A. I've since switched the camera out for an Insta 360. That works really well, but I really like the 360 "pseudo-drone" videos on a selfie stick I've seen on Trent Palmer's site. I'm going to mount a second Rock Steady behind the other and use the two to mount the selfie stick. Got the idea from a You Tube video linked from the Van's site. Very cool shots. I just got the camera, haven't done the mounting yet.

The Rock Steady mount is very secure. The two mounting screws go into two of the wingtip mounting nut plates. Here's a good YouTube overview of mounting such a thing on the wingtip of an RV.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0-On4RZ1O0&t=184s


Relevant sites:
https://flightflix.net/
https://www.sportys.com/rock-steady..._eLNuFkosfDlp1Z_hLlHMZZZCWdAsNBBoCHTQQAvD_BwE
 
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