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I've had some questions about the camera rig I made for the Feed and Speed.



It was a Brine lacrosse shaft (~$10 or less) that I cut into 2 pieces to make a T. One if the pieces was notched so I could put rivets though it and attach it, in between the 2 I put a bit of rubber from a rubber glove to make the connection tigher. Self threading machine screws could have probably worked better. The longer piece has 2 ~14mm holes drilled around 6 inches apart to accept the headrest posts. The shorter piece holds the camera mount from a tripod. I'll try to get a pic of the assembly mounted in my car tomorrow.

Cool. Have you driven around and taped with it yet? Hopefully it doesn't move around too much. Here's my ghetto camera mount:



The center seat belt holds the back tripod leg, and the other two are on the floor, being held in place by bungee cords attached to the seat mounts. It's pretty solid, and the tripod was like $25 or something.

check out the Feed and Speed videos in the gallery, video 7 is in Phils car and you can see it isn't too bad (for a 30 minute job)

I can't believe I didn't think about doing something like yours though, is your rearview mirror in the way?

My mount is quite ghetto too currently. A piece of square aluminum tubing bolted to the child seat anchor through the use of multiple washers and spacers.

Yeah, the one drawback is that the camera is placed a little farther rearward than I'd like, so you get a lot of dash and mirror, although the view of the road is still pretty good. The one cool part is that you can see myself and the navigator discussing the route and making fun of other drivers and stuff. I've recently put it in with the back leg was farther out so it's leaning forward, which helps.

Oh and also I listen to good music, although about 80% of the time we're not paying attention to the radio. I think Tom Petty's greatest hits cycled through 4 times once. Then I put in the original chronic to show how I'm from the streets of the westside. You easterners and your Will Smith and half-assed shockers