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I recently bought a cheap Panasonic cx161 ccd cam from Ebay.

I just made a easy to make Pantilt for it in Balsa/Plywood sandwich.
This Pantilt is made for a cx161 and a Towerpro SG90 (9gram) servo, but I'm sure the Pan/tilt will work well with other cameras aswell..


here is all the parts needed for the pan/tilt.
all parts where made of two layers of 1mm ply and one layer off 1.5mm balsa. I chose to work with thin layers glued together because it's easier to work with than thick plywood.
plywood up to 1mm can be cut with a scissor..


here are all the parts glued together.
I use a 2mm pianowire for hinge.




here are the cam and servo positions.


servo is connected.
as you can see in the picture a drilled a new hole for the servo rod, it works with the original holes aswell but I experimented with different setups and ended up with it connected like it that.


pan servo arm bolted in place.

With the setup above I get about 45degrees of tilt movment up and down with a normal servo and I think that will be enought for me.
If you want more movement you have to modify the construction a little and ad a 180degree servo.

If anyone want drawings of the parts I can probably scan my templates..

/Bjorn

Good work sir

does the job perfectly

have you tested it out yet??

i had my pan mount the same way, but i found it wobbled loose, i found it better if you have one screw facing forward and one back...then the wind pressure wont push it loose


good work

Thanks!

I will keep that in mind!

I haven't flown with it yet, I'm going to use it on one of my old planes That I'm working on to convert it for FPV

Balsa basher i hope it works ok, i would smash that up in 5 mins flat with my type of flying

Hi Bjorn,

Looking amazing. I have CX131 and i was searching for pan/tilt for this.
Please test it and share with us.
If it works well, i will draw it with Autocad and i will cut with my friends lazer cutter.
Then I will send one set to you

sounds amazing!
I will report back as soon as I get a chance to fly with it!

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I dont expect it to have a loong life, but atleast a short exiting one

(10-30-2009 11:42 AM)Cosha Wrote: [ -> ]Balsa basher i hope it works ok, i would smash that up in 5 mins flat with my type of flying