Camera Gantry by jman
The number of cool camera-related items keeps slowly climbing. The camera gantry from jman (pictured above) is not only the most recent entry but also a very clever one: it includes beautifully knurled knob surfaces and a sturdy adjustments…and much of it is available in parametric OpenSCAD files.
This is an especially cool device since it really serves a different purpose than a normal tripod, it’s always awesome to see Thingiverse users making new, cool stuff to solve challenges that mass-market products can’t. Well done jman!
I needed a way of holding a camera in a stable position for desktop photographing of various small items. A desktop tripod was not really working for me, so I designed this gantry (a bit derived from a traveling crane!)
The camera can be held at a wide variety of orientations and heights, and then easily locked in place by tightening the knobs at either end. The whole thing collapses down flat to go in a cupboard.
The non-plastic parts are four 12mm by 400mmm aluminium tubes, with caps on to avoid scratching and slippage, a piece of thick plywood 50mm by 350mm (in my case with some aluminium angle along the edges for reinforcement), two M6 * 65mm hex bolts with washers and nuts, four M4 * 25mm bolts with washers and nuts, and some foam for under the camera.
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