$14 steadycam rig.

[Brad_Thames]

A friend just sent me this link. I have not made this yet, but the demo videos look impressive - for 14 bucks anyway.

http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/steadycam/

[HansK]

Here's a site with many homemade stabilizers:

http://homebuiltstabilizers.com/

- Hans

[BLWolf]

A friend of mine built this. It works alright. It's worth making if you can't get one if the big boys' toys.

[Jive]

It's funny how the link to this site is being posted on so many forums even tho it's so old. Must've been because it was Slashdotted. I built one of these over 2 years ago. It's a good starting point, and a good "trainer" to help learn the basics of using a handheld stabilizer. But homebuiltstabilizers is definitly awsome.

[speedbump]

Found this on the web. Thank google!

http://www.intervalometers.com/resource/sc/index.stm

These are the original SteadiCam patent papers. They include detailed pics of the stabilization arm, as well as other parts.

I'm definately looking hard at this!

[slave2lab]

Hey Brad.

If you're planning to actually put one of these together, check out the site below. It has slight modifications that make sense and seems well worth the little extra $.

http://www.cartala.com/diy.html

-John

[magicdavek]

Here's a site to take you on a tour of how a steadicam works (plus some cool history)

http://www.howstuffworks.com/steadicam.htm