Hiking Tripod

Last crawled date: 4 years, 1 month ago

Bought a couple of hiking poles to see if they worked for less pain in the old knees.
Found I would have to carry my trusty monopod hiking pole as well.
Mmm methinks 2 poles one camera, just need a thing to put them together.
So here it is not just a mono/bipod but a tripod (I might have a friend along with another pole so could go hands free).
I happend to have a couple of ball heads in my photo kit bag so used them. The little one was not strong enough for my SLR but perfectly fine for my battered old wtaerproof compact. Should also work without the ball head especially in monopod mode. You can also sit it on a flat surface.
I'm sure one of you folks could also adapt with a phone mount for the ultimate selfie.
I also put a hole in the middle to take a cord to hang a counter-weight to imprpove stability (you still need to use self timer or remote realease to combat wobble).
The things are in tripod.scad. You need the other 2 scad files in the same directory to make it work.