Single HD Gyro Image stabilizer

Step 6 Possible further improvements

1) Making a strap: too many devices! Camera, battery, stabilizer and bag. After use, stuff needs to be taken apart and stored. Normally, the 'feel' of the camera weight  make sure things are properly taken care of. The presence of yet another device is hard to notice.  This confusion makes it easy to drop things (I almost dropped it when taking the camera off)!

2) The HD could be be protected by rubber or insulation foam strips. A serious, multi- platter HD can carry many images, videos or data, as an 'image tank'.  Wiring kits to convert the HD into an external storage device are cheap. But, if taking the stabilizer into the field, one should really have another backup...  (Of course, this depends somewhat on what one considers ' the field': is it your back yard or a war zone?).

3) Making sure all connections are tight and water proof.

On stronger motors: CD/DVD and HDD spindle motors are being hacked by the RC model plane community. With thicker wiring and replacing the ceramic magnet ring with Neodymium magnets they seem to reach up to a whopping 400 W output. Machining of a new rotor (bell) and controller ('esc') is required +a high output battery pack (LiPo), which would make a gyro project no longer low budget nor fast to assemble. It could provide another dramatic reduction in size and weight though. Link:www.flyelectric.ukgateway.net/machin.htm