We’ve got two wheels now, baby! (and I’ve refined this a bit from a bungee only setup).  Here’s my rig for bicycling for Mapillary photos.  This uses the same gimbal for stabilizing and leveling the photos, so it should have similarly great output. Mapillary output yet to come for this one.  In the mean time, you can watch the camera gimbal come alive: Also you … Continue reading Bicycling for Mapillary

I really dig the crowd-sourced street-view service, Mapillary, and like to contribute to it, but doing a good job of getting blur-free images is a little tricky. This is double true in dark, under forest canopy trails. So, we solved it with some technology. Enter, a GoPro camera, a gimbal for an RC copter (drone), and some old bicycle parts: The gimbal is a two … Continue reading Unicycling for Mapillary