Crazy Cart Third person POV project

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I like a lot to snowboarding and mountainbiking and what I like more is to get videos while during this activity. What I strudge more is to have a great point of view (POV in short) during this filming.

Nowadays action camera are very pouplar and affordable what we need now is a great support for them.
From the first time when I seen the Crazy Cart i started to thing at the popular video game Mario Kart. How cool would be to film with a POV like that ?

And here start the challenge, my goal is to create a perfect support for action camera and to position them perfectly to film us and friends around.

First I downloaded an action camera model and added the field of view (FOV in short). It's quite easy to find all the infos in the manufacturer website. This FOV model is like a piramid driven by 2
sketch, it's quite easy to adapt it to different camera setup. I have also changed the edge style to better identify them (bold yellow dashed).

Second I add to create a sketch to drive the pole position and the camera position, to do this at best I did use the Solid Edge tool Goal Seeker. Parts are relationed with the sketch so was a quite easy and accourate job to obtaine what i wanted.

Third I did model the support, my first though was to create a sheet metal part, but then I choose to create a plastic part. In this way we can obtain it very quick by 3D printing it. I did optimize the thickness with Solid Edge Simulation optimization tool.

Step Four, I did move to Keyshot, camera setup is very complete and you can control every aspect of the camere. Was easy to verify that the POV designed match what expected.


Francesco