A new toy

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A new toy

Postby Bronski » Sat 17 Sep, 2011 6:49 am

Picked mine up from Ikea last night, off to the hardware shop today to get all the bits to make it work. Here's the toy...

http://www.ikeahackers.net/2011/09/hacked-ikea-kitchen-timers-shoot-time.html
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Re: A new toy

Postby Drifting » Sat 17 Sep, 2011 10:20 am

oh man, that is AWESOME! Do a step-by-step discussion of your hack, eh?
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Re: A new toy

Postby Bronski » Wed 19 Oct, 2011 3:53 pm

So I haven't made anything yet. I went to bunnings and they had nothing I was after. So off to United Fasteners in Springvale and I got some set screws. They'd never seen the bushing before which led to back to my joby tripod and some googling found that the bushing (for this project) is uniquely a camera product, have to get those from camera stores. When I get around to making it, I'll post photos, hopefully they'll look just as good as this blokes. No point me doing a DIY step by step, I found his specific instructions and they are great. Here they are...
http://www.getawaymoments.com/2011/07/h ... -time.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpMvIu4U ... re=related

Oh, and I weakened and bought a GoPro..... :shock:
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