cheap easy helmet cam

[westy465]

what you need:
- one old beat up helmet
- one digital camera with the screw hole on the bottom for a tripod
- some gaffers tape
- a drill
- screw from the visor adjusters from another helmet
- and 2 cans of awesome

drill a hole in the visor of your helmet, and lay a strip of gaffers tape over that area. this stops vibrations between the helmet and the camera.

put the screw from a visor adjuster through the hole, and screw the camera on top of the visor. now it just so happens that the thread from the screw on my visor adjusters is the same thread as the camera tripod scew.

now you will have to slide the visor up and down to get the right angle, bit of field testing required here. but ones you have found it, use more gaffers tape and tape your visor to the helmet. this eliminates any flex in the visor.

then go for a sick ride and do some tricks.

i will try get a photo of the camera on the helmet, but its hard to take a photo of a camera when you need that camera to take the photo. I will try work something out.

 

[westy465]

 

[bradisfun]

why do you have a camera when your not wearing clothes? :|
but yer not a bad idea

 

[sean01]

a dude posted a different version of this last week..

theres a tut on youtube

 

[westy465]

true? sorry had no idea,

Im wearing shorts, but its pretty hot here at the moment, Im comfortable. Dont act like your not impressed!

 

[sean01]

nah all good mate, this is another version as last weeks one was showing it mounted on the side of the helmet..

be interesting to see the quality tho, as most camera's like that dont like fast motion recording

 

[westy465]

actuall surprised. its turned out 100 times better than I thought. I had pretty low expectations if this. but now I have a bunch of huge files that I cant upload coz they are too big. a one minute clip is about 80 meg. any ideas how to get them smaller?

 

[sean01]

you need a program to re-encode them mate..

oh and all good cause i deleted the thread from last weeks one as it was sorta a double post...

 

[westy465]

can you download those programs off the net?

 

[sean01]

yeah, but youll need to search for a free one

 

[bradisfun]

true? sorry had no idea,

Im wearing shorts, but its pretty hot here at the moment, Im comfortable. Dont act like your not impressed!

well, i do like that tat?

 

[viper sx]

nice, i was just looking at expensive helmet cams and then i signed in here

first thread that popped up.
thanks

 

[westy465]

heres the vid, it seems I have lost alot of quality with re-encoding it

 

[rumble]

Try adjusting the movie settings of the camera. Usually easier than trying to recode it.

 

[westy465]

yeh just found it now. next time I will use the lower resolution.