{"id":741,"date":"2011-07-09T14:58:15","date_gmt":"2011-07-09T21:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/?p=741"},"modified":"2022-10-05T15:23:55","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T19:23:55","slug":"smile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/smile\/","title":{"rendered":"Smile!…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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…you’re on camera!<\/p>\n

My first attempt at mounting my helmetcam to my RC truck didn’t work so well: it was velcro’d to the flexible body and shook around too much. This time I screwed together some 3\/8″ dowels and other scrap wood to attach the camera to the frame, by spanning the front and rear body mounts.<\/p>\n

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The camera pokes a bit farther through the windshield now (so it records less of the hood) but it’s held on with elastic bands… so if it gets hit it can slide back into the body:<\/p>\n

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The video was better, but still very choppy. It’s never going to be perfectly smooth when the truck is flying across a lumpy lawn on little 5″ wheels. So I also washed the video though a VirtualDub plugin called “Deshaker<\/a>“, then played with cropping and resizing the video to get this second demo clip:<\/p>\n