Victory! Almost

[mofoburrell]

After yesterday’s fail­ure I brought a bit of extra duct tape and super glue and got the car back in work­ing order with the cam­era affixed to it nicely. I took it out again this after­noon to see if I could get the cam­era to sur­vive some small jumps off some staircases.

The good news is my duct tap­ing and super glu­ing worked. The cam­era didn’t move an iota - though sadly I had to tilt it a bit to the left to get it seated prop­erly - and the servo con­trol­ler stayed where it was sup­posed to.

Before I get into the down­sides maybe I’ll just show the video.

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So the first down­side is that the video ends about five minutes earlier than it should have. When I rolled the car it rolled onto the shut­ter but­ton, unbe­knownst to me. It’s too bad since the crazier/​more abus­ive stuff came after that.

The second down­side is that both the cam­era and car took more abuse than they have before. The metal cas­ing on the cam­era got scraped off on one corner. One of the front shocks on the car came apart, which is espe­cially bad con­sid­er­ing it’s an oil-​​filled shock absorber. I haven’t decided what I’ll do about that.

The third down­side is that since I had to run the car without a body in order to get the cam­era on, it got more water dam­age than usual. Cur­rently it only goes in reverse. I’ll take another look at it after it dries out.

I think I’m going to put this short-​​lived remote con­trolled car video­graphy pro­ject aside until I fig­ure out a way to get things to sur­vive better.

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