Eye in the Sky

The prototype is ready for testing!

Want to take 3D pictures? Then you need a 3D camera. Or two cameras in this case (even got the right colors).
Want to fly with this contraption? They it has to be as light as possible!

Two carbon fibre tubes, length 100cm and diameter 10mm. Drilled trough a plastic box for electric components for orientation (it's good if they are parallel to each other) and bonded together with layers of super glue. The movable mounting for the camera is (for now) composed of an old xBee break out board with a hole for a 1/4'' camera mounting screw. All attached to the tubes with "snail" clamp.

Yes, the last part needs some work before it will be light enough to put on an rc plane, but for testing on the ground this works just fine.

Buy Hardware to Build Hardware

For this project a pair of A2200 Canon cameras will be used. Choice for them was made because they are light, cheap, have a 14 MP sensor, can shoot 720p (HD) video and come in red & blue colors.

But most importantly, since this is Canon (and that is why we love them for it), they can be used with an third-party firmware called CHDK (Canon Hacking Development Kit), granting full control over the cameras including running scripts on them and controlling them remotely trough a computer.