Headmount for compact cameras

This is the cheapest head-mounted camera kit I could come up with. Welding goggles ( $3-$5 ), a strip of stretchy ribbon, ($1-$2). That's it. Cut a hole in the ribbon and mount in on your head. Rubber bands would probably do just as well.

This is definitely not meant for recording your bike ride, or anything that requires full attention from both eyes. This is meant for making videos of instructables and documenting non life-threatening activities.

Step 1 Materials

A small scrap piece of cardboard.
Welding googles.
A small strip of stretchy fabric ribbon
A sharp blade

Comments

[Jehnavi24]

There’s some really great reviews on this page.
mdearlove I just bought a cool Nikon waterproof compact camera

[stuuf]

You should add a red LED to it somewhere so you look more like a Borg drone :)

And have you tried positioning the camera so you can look directly through its optical viewfinder? Those goggles look like they're a little too long for it to work very well though.

Another thing you can do is get a Gorillapod and wrap it around a hat attached with safety pins. I recorded some pretty good video with a webcam mounted this way.
http://blip.tv/file/2044410/
Boo, instructables can't embed blip videos

[gimmelotsarobots]

I like it. very useful.

[inquisitive]

Cool-great idea! Thanks! I will use this when someday I get the guts to do my first ible!

[GorillazMiko]

Heh, cool! I like the last picture. :P Awesome job.