Comment by Ravi Gaddipati on June 14, 2010 at 12:10pm

There are four screw mounting holes, or you could go with foam tape (I would use both)

Comment by wurpfel on June 14, 2010 at 12:55pm

I use hotglue to fix it on a servoarm..

Comment by James Turner on June 14, 2010 at 12:56pm

I tried using lots of glue with balsa but the glue damaged the board on a similar camera causing image problems.I would go with the screw holes option as Ravi suggests. you could screw it to an outrunner mount such as this with a bit of adjusting:

Comment by ionut on June 14, 2010 at 2:06pm

You don't need connectors as they take precious space.Just solder the connections directly:li-po,camera and transmitter.I'm curious what is the difference between cameras:420 line,520,HD.It seems they have similar performance because the AV wireless connection can support only low res PAL: 576 -line/25 Hz maximum or NTSC.

Moderator Comment by Adam AKAV8R on June 14, 2010 at 2:14pm

Thanks for the tips, I gotta know, what the H#@l is that on your bench wurpfel? :)

Comment by ionut on June 14, 2010 at 2:17pm

What do you think about this wireless transmiter?:
http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/237705226/HD_Portable_Digital_ima...

Comment by James F. on June 14, 2010 at 2:28pm

@ionut, looks very large and heavy.

Comment by Morli on June 14, 2010 at 3:05pm

Ionut , the spec of the HD Tx looks juicy and tempting except where it says
weight = 1.8 k.g
Dimentions= 180 x 110 x 88 ( MM)
Freq = 320-360 Mhz , 600-860 Mhz

This looks like the video TX used behind on-site TV crew. There is no mention of RX needed. Still interesting if we know the price. But it not a hobby or FPV tx .

Comment by wurpfel on June 14, 2010 at 3:10pm

yes, that`s a "full monty" moorhuhn with a ardupilot and fpv. great to observe birds.


to glue the cam-PCB I drop hotmelt on the holes for the screws. so a saefty-breakline is established when something goes wrong. and I add a lil-keflarstring to prevent unintentional fallout and big SARmissions to find a tiny cam on a large green ;-)


the mostly used analog transmitter can`t go behind 420 lines, the DECT-bandwide isn`t enough for more.
better connect via bluetooth or use a mobile with flatrate.


I also experiment with a serial C328-cam and syntetic view to achieve more than 0,75 fps. but thats a other story..in fullHD.

Comment by John_NY on August 12, 2010 at 5:04pm

I'd probably use some polymorph (http://shapelock.com/ or http://www.robotshop.com/productinfo.aspx?pc=RB-Dag-09), and a pan-tilt mount (http://www.robotshop.com/dagu-mini-pan-and-tilt-kit.html).
I haven't gotten my pan-tilt mount yet, but that's my plan.
my 2¢,
-John

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