I hear for steadycam they just use a counterweight, but I’m not sure how precisely it would fit into this design.

Posted at 1:03 pm on Jul 14th, 2009 by absolutezero

which is to say, I’m not sure how you’d counterweight the camera without hanging something off of his back.

Posted at 1:04 pm on Jul 14th, 2009 by absolutezero

Looks really fun to do. But i’ve seen better versions with an arm made out of a lamp stand, (how do i describe this?) the snake like thing you can fold in allmost any direction, made out of metal rings, quite sturdy build.

Posted at 1:06 pm on Jul 14th, 2009 by Gert

a damper?

Posted at 1:18 pm on Jul 14th, 2009 by worker

Failing a working link in the post above, isn’t the Snorricam the rig created to film those city walking scenes in Pi?

Posted at 1:26 pm on Jul 14th, 2009 by chango

I’d be tempted to put a gimbal mount on a plastic pipe, and mount the camera on a thinner pipe, with enough cheap shampoo between them to float the camera (diluted to give appropriate damping). Strips of polyethylene packing foam (the slippery stuff) might be necessary to help guide the inner pipe.

Thixotropy is fun!

Posted at 1:42 pm on Jul 14th, 2009 by Joel

@chango,
I fixed the link, thanks for the heads up.

Posted at 1:50 pm on Jul 14th, 2009 by Caleb Kraft

what the hell.

Posted at 2:14 pm on Jul 14th, 2009 by rbz

There,s no need for dampers or counter weights that would make it a steadycam. The strange perspective this gives isn’t a flaw. it’s the point.

Posted at 2:24 pm on Jul 14th, 2009 by chris

Worst project ever.

Posted at 3:19 pm on Jul 14th, 2009 by This dude

Why would you use wood? That’s the only thing I can’t understand. There are much better materials out there than heavy ass wood.

You could have easily worked it out with PVC pipe or maybe just some random plastic material from Lowes or something.

Anyway, it works. That’s all the matters right? Good job.

Posted at 4:06 pm on Jul 14th, 2009 by TMH

Pretty cool I think. Maybe wood is quite heavy for the job but it made a very cool looking video very easily so thats the important bit!

Posted at 4:25 pm on Jul 14th, 2009 by Chris

Excellent tutorial on how to load up a person with 20lbs of wood. Next up, a backpack full of lead to counterbalance the front camera setup.

Posted at 4:50 pm on Jul 14th, 2009 by rich

Might as well have one long line drilled out instead of a bunch of holes. It would make it EVEN more versitile in terms of the angle.

Posted at 5:20 pm on Jul 14th, 2009 by techptolemy

Damn, he is cute.

Posted at 5:28 pm on Jul 14th, 2009 by omghax

First off, thanks everyone for the comments, this project has been really fun and interesting. Just responding to some of the people here: I built it out of wood because that’s what I had readily available, its also not heavy at all, considering its 1×3’s and 1/2 plywood. Also, once the straps are tightened down, it feels like part of your body when using it. I would add weights to the back if i added anything more out front.

Posted at 6:11 pm on Jul 14th, 2009 by Carter

looks great. hilarious demo video — definitely demonstrated usability!

Posted at 6:38 pm on Jul 14th, 2009 by supershwa

At the last mount point before the camera is attached, try boring it out some an inserting a piece of rubber hose over the bolts. It would dampen some the vibration. Make the piece of rubber hose slightly longer than the thickness of what is being bolted, so when the bolt is tightened, the rubber hose compresses. Does anybody understand what i just said?

Posted at 6:50 pm on Jul 14th, 2009 by danman

what a bunch of faggot shit

Posted at 6:56 pm on Jul 14th, 2009 by I love you

I would try to get it supported from your hips, and counterweight it from the back, it should help a lot.

Posted at 6:58 pm on Jul 14th, 2009 by nubie

what it doing here ?!

Posted at 7:51 pm on Jul 14th, 2009 by therian

Thats a really cool idea. Nice and simple too. The example video (“Wake”) made me WTF. Was that a Ninja playing Golf?

Posted at 10:55 pm on Jul 14th, 2009 by Benny M

why is everyone picking on this? its a good hack, it worked and it makes a good video. Good work mate.

Posted at 12:33 am on Jul 15th, 2009 by blackman

Love the shirt love the hack! sure it could do with some refinements but couldn’t we all?

Posted at 3:43 am on Jul 15th, 2009 by grovenstien

@Gert

it’s called a gooseneck

Posted at 5:02 am on Jul 15th, 2009 by collinstheclown

I like beautiful blogs!

Posted at 6:19 am on Jul 15th, 2009 by honeyelize

vibration absorbtion though. Anyone got any ideas on that?

steadycam

however, there is a patent on the design and a union of operators

Posted at 9:06 am on Jul 15th, 2009 by anon

@chango

Yep and A requiem for a Dream – Darren Aronofsky directed both and is well known for his snorricam use!

Posted at 1:08 pm on Jul 15th, 2009 by az

Looks a bit very silly, partly because of the wood, which is also wood colored, you would already improve on it if you painted it black.
I myself would have gone for aluminium, you can buy rods and beams for relatively cheap at most all home improvement shops, and it’s not too hard to work with since it’s not super hard to drill and it’s lightweight, and there’s something about aluminium I like, but as suggested PVC would be lighter too, and less ‘edison’ looking.
Of course you could roll with the old edison look and add some brass and stuff to make it steampunk, seems popular now, even that new scifi channel show ‘warehouse 13′ goes for the steampunk effect.

Posted at 5:41 am on Jul 16th, 2009 by Wwhat

For vibration, how about Sorbothane?It’s a gooey insole material. So some in your shoes and some on the back of the chest “plate” and see if that helps. Cheap enough to throw away if it don’t

HTH

Posted at 7:46 am on Jul 16th, 2009 by M. Funkibut

@wwhat

Considering you never see the snorricam in the footage you’re shooting with it, The appearance doesn’t really matter.

Posted at 11:41 am on Jul 16th, 2009 by Carter

hey you gotta big hunk of wood hangin off you

Posted at 8:53 am on Sep 7th, 2009 by clarke wind