Smartphone Tripod From Recycled Selfie Stick and Handycam Tripod

I'd like to use a smartphone to make video's of my projects. But filming hand-held is not good for the quality of the footage. So I've got the idea of constructing a little smartphone tripod.

I already had a mini tripod for a handycam and a selfie stick laying around the house. The challenge ahead: connecting those two parts together!

Materials:

Selfie stick
handycam tripod
piece of wood

Tools:

screwdriver
fine plyer
drills

Step 1: Disasembling the Selfie Stick

Step 2: Connecting the Selfie Stick and the Handycam Mini-tripod

The mini-tripod has a standard1/4" male screw on a ball head.

The selfie stick has a plastic plug, without screw.

I took a piece of wood to connect them together.

Be carefull: don't make the holes to big! Better start of with smaller holes. If they are to small, take a larger size of drill, untill it fits.

Step 3: Update: Adding Button to Start/stop Filming

After finishing the tripod, I had a few 'leftovers':

the antenna-like metal shaft
the selfie stick handle
a button connected to an 3.5mm audio jack

It would be a shame to throw these away!

So I recycled these things into a handle with a push button to start/stop filming. By the way, this is very handy! You don't have to push a button on your phone, wich could move the camera or unfocus the shot!

It took some force and torque to pull the lowest segment out of the antenna. Then i placed that segment back in the handle. Watch out: don't cut the cable that goes to the button.