3D Printable 3 Axis Camera Arm

Last crawled date: 1 year, 11 months ago

A Camera Arm that can be controlled using an Arduino CNC Shield and uses 3 NEMA stepper motors.

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Can be configured with a variety of motors:
-NEMA 17 Direct Drive
-NEMA 23 Direct Drive
-NEMA 17 4.16:1 Gearing

Additional Hardware Needed:
- 6 608 size ball bearings. Preferably sealed or shielded type.
- ~300mm of 8mm shaft. Cut to 130, 55, 100mm lengths
- 1/4-20 or 3/8-16 nut, depending on which mount you need to print.
- 1/4-20 x 1 inch hex head cap bolt

Fasteners:
- 4 M5x27mm Screws
- 4 M4x10mm Screws
- 16 M4x20mm Screws

Additional Hardware For Motor Mounting, Per Motor:
NEMA 23 Direct, Tilt and Turn
- 8 M5x27mm Low Profile (3mm or lower head size) screw
- 4 3D Printed Standoff (attached, 50mm)
NEMA 23 Direct, Pan
- 4 M5x27mm Screw
NEMA 17 Direct
- 8 M5x27mm Screw
- 4 3D Printed Standoff (attached, 50mm)
- NEMA 23-17 Adapter Plate (Attached)
- M3x6 Screw
NEMA 17 Geared
- 50T Spur Gear
- 12T Pinion Gear
- NEMA 17 Geared Plate (attached, covered
version if exposed gears are not desired)
- M4 Set Screw <6mm
- 4 M3x6 Screw
- 4 M5x10 Low Profile Screw
- M4x20 Screw
- 8mm ID Split Shim (attached)
- Print No Standoff version of Bottom Stepper Mount if using on Pan is desired.

Printable Components Needed:
- 2 Shaft Collar Bearingmount
- 1 Bottom Steppermount
- Either BottomPlate (sheet drilled) of BottomPlateThick(3DP
- CameraMountv3
- 2 Coupler Part 1 and 2 if using with NEMA 23
- Pan and mount Tilt
- Pan Set
- Tilt and mount Turn
- Tilt set
- One of two tripod nut mounts
- Turn and mount plate
- Turn set

Notes:
I have not personally built and tested this. Comment issues down below.
Also: Please share your software solution and build

Changelog:
3.24/2018:
Added .iam file as temporary assembly instructions until I learn how to use the Inventor Presentation tool