camera movement with servo

ToddH

I just purchased a wireless camera to goof around with. Its about the size of a large sugar cube. I would love to be able to mount it to my tab sumo-bot and have a 'robot cam'.

Ultimately, I would like to use the IR remote control to have the camera tilt up and down. Here is where I need some direction... I have a parallax standard servo and the camera. I just need some way to mount the camera so that when the servo turns it tilts the camera up and down. Oh, and I also plan on using some standoffs and mount the server / camera / battery 'above' the current board on a new board.

Do any of you have any ideas on a good way to mount this? I'll figure out the remote control operation of the servo later. At this point, I'm just worrying about the mounting / servo-tilting operation.

Thanks much!

Todd

Himszy

From memory the lynx motion robotic arms have a servo controlled camera that tilts. I think the site is something like www.lynxmotion.com.

Michael

Javalin

Hi,

Yes LynxMotion do a serveral kits, I have one of them and its excellent.

The link your after is:

http://www.lynxmotion.com/Category.aspx?CategoryID=61

James

ToddH

Thats a great site - thanks much - its just what the doctor ordered [noparse]:)[/noparse]

Himszy

Javalin,
I thought about buying one, what do you think about maximum weight it can lift? Is it too small or have not had any problems with it.
Regards
Michael

Javalin

Hi Michael,

It would depend on the size of the servos. Obviously the larger servo's the more current consuption.

With the kit including the servo's, a reasonable amount. It (can) be provided with "Hitec HS-422" servos'. You would need to lookup the spec's on them, taking into account the leverage of the camera mount.

The materials used are of good quality - so should not be an issue there.

Good luck