Yea that would work nice. I would like to see a gyroscope of a camera. Balance it on a string…

@farthead

I don’t really get the point of your comment. If you read the description and the link to the build, you see that this one DOES have a gimbal (that’s what the Traxxas U-joint is doing in there, and it’s anchored into a skate bearing) and there has been no comment endorsing a design that doesn’t use a gimbal.

This is fine and dandy – but what’s
the point of trying to capture STEADY
video, when every moron director and
movie maker thinks its cool to jiggle
the camera DELIBERATELY when framing
a scene ?

wish i could biiaatch slap the azzholes
who deliberately shake cameras ! i fly
ENG helo’s with gyro stabilized camera
mounts that cost six figures – and when
i watch a movie or tv series where they
SHAKE the camera DELIBERATELY it pisses
me off to no end ! like WTF ??

just curious – who’s the target market
for this device ? can’t be the current
crop of movie makers – sarcasm intended

I wonder if this design could be extended using CD players as gyroscopes, like this

CD players like that should be dirt cheap, and most can be made to work with more than one CD stacked for more stabilization force.

As far as I can tell, the design currently eliminates roll, pitch, and yaw. Providing at least dampening in the X, Y, and Z directions might be desirable, and this could be accomplished by suspending the device from the handle with rubber bands.

Then there’s also the active approach, which could use servo motors, a Wii Motion Plus, and a controller like an Arduino to provide the same stabilization but also allow the camera to be aimed with a joystick type control.