You've all seen the MotoGP footage of Rossi's bum, where even tho the bike is leaning the horizon stays in the right place on your 42" tv right?
Having had the thought to try this out for a while, last night whilst you lot were having a life I decided to spend a few hours sorting it out.
I took a control board from my Tricopter project which has various electronic gyros and accelerometers on it and re-flashed the code with a firmware version which can be used for a standalone camera gimbal.
Normally a gimbal has 3 axis to keep a camera pointing dead ahead whilst the object it is attached to can move in any axis.
I only needed the one axis, for the sideways tilting of a motorbike.
A few head scratches trying to work out the settings and eventually I got this:
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Not bad for a first go, it needs a little tuning. Then I need to package it in something and try it on the road.
