{"id":477,"date":"2017-07-12T23:41:11","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T21:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sharedinventions.com\/?p=477"},"modified":"2017-07-13T00:03:34","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T22:03:34","slug":"diy-webcam-arm-stand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sharedinventions.com\/?p=477","title":{"rendered":"DIY WebCam arm-stand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have got webcam some years ago, in a rather sad state with a missing foot. I already own some good webcams, I did not felt the need to fix this one, but as this is a very decent camera I still saved it a future project.<\/p>\n<p>I had some RaspberryPi point and shoot camera, or motion detection camera setup in my mind.<\/p>\n<p>But now, I as the kids are on vacation, I wanted to keep them busy, so I recommended them to create a stop-motion video. There were only two missing part for this idea: a decent camera, and a stop-motion software.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately I couldn&#8217;t have find a good stop-motion application, so I have made my own.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/sharedinventions.com\/?page_id=415\">RivetCam WebCam application documentation<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now as the software is ready, I have turned my attention to the camera, and especially a good stand for the camera.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"DIY Webcam Arm-Stand\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k2WxxCDxm2Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Design<\/h2>\n<p>I did not wanted to spend too much time with this. So the design is rather simple, but it appeared to be still a flexible solution.<\/p>\n<p>We have a heavy base, two bars, a head piece with a rotating block forming an arm like stand. You can imagine, that this can be handy on a stop-motion shooting.<\/p>\n<h2>Materials<\/h2>\n<p>I decided to go with some hard wood, to keep the structure slim. But I do not own any. Except for these junk hardwood floor pieces.<\/p>\n<h2>Build process<\/h2>\n<p>I have made the base from the nicer piece, and made 3 slices from the other one. Cut the bars to two 16cm pieces (that is a bit more than 6 inches). And cut the other pieces.<\/p>\n<p>Sanded everything, formed a slot in the base with the drillpress, drilled the holes for the screws. I will use M5 screws for the joins.<\/p>\n<p>Glued on the pieces.<\/p>\n<p>Finished with linseed oil.<\/p>\n<h2>Conclusions<\/h2>\n<p>After some days of use there are some things to note.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There is a problem with the arm, that it likely to tip. That is not a problem, when I want to clap id down. I might want to add a steal plate under the base, but with that, I can give up portability. An other solution is to provide some extendable legs.<\/li>\n<li>It might not need to have so many tilting rotating, points.<\/li>\n<li>This design is not perfect in the mean of portability. The stand does not fold well into a small shape, but it is not bad either.<\/li>\n<li>While the structure is stable, it can wiggle and oscillate to the sides.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have got webcam some years ago, in a rather sad state with a missing foot. I already own some good webcams, I did not felt the need to fix this one, but as this is a very decent camera I still saved it a future project. I had some RaspberryPi point and shoot camera,\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sharedinventions.com\/?p=477\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":484,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharedinventions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharedinventions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharedinventions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharedinventions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharedinventions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sharedinventions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":487,"href":"https:\/\/sharedinventions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions\/487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharedinventions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharedinventions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharedinventions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharedinventions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}