Zi6 Camera Head Mount (or any other pocket camera)

“A picture is worth a thousand words” and a fishing story is only as good as the poorly lit grainy cell phone picture of you posing with your catch. Since the GoPro HD Hero is not in my gadget budget I thought I would make a head mount for my little HD camera and record my fishing adventures because a video has to be worth at least a million words.

I looked around the shop for the things I could use to make the camera mount. I would be adapting the GoPro’s design. I gathered up a few tools and some other odds and ends.

1. Dremel
2. Cordless Drill
3. Sharp Blade
4. 1/16” drill bit
5. 1/4” drill bit
6. 420 Cutting Wheel
7. Coarse Grinding Wheel
8. 1/4 - 20 1" bolt (what i had but a 1/2 inch length is ideal)
9. Sharpie
10. Bracket
11. Nylon Strap
12. 1/4” washer
13. Wood Clamp
14. Safety Glasses

Step 1: Adjust bolt and bracket

I started off by cutting off the bolt down to ½ inch and then I clamped down the bracket and bored out the existing centered hole. I mounted the camera and marked the bracket where I could see the screen so I could review the video without unmounting the camera from the head mount I also marked down two lines down the side where I would make two slits for the nylon strap.