The Kite Rig

Here it is in all its glory.

Its made almost entirely of scrap aluminum bent, drilled, and bolted together to make a camera rig that can pan and tilt. The Camera is a Cannon Power shot loaded with a CDHK intervalometer script which allows it to act as a time lapse camera set to take a picture every 5 seconds. I have a 2 channel Traxxis 2215 receiver with a 27 mhz crystal which controls the two servos.

The large gears were custom made on the laser cutter downstairs, the smaller ones were salvaged from an old Tyco RC car that I had lying around.  Then I used key rings and fishing swivels to attach the suspension to the strings. 

Close up of the Receiver and Power supply. 

This is the blocking used to quickly attach the rig to the kite string.