my Version of a Skater Dolly: RADIATUS !!!

@guskersthecat:
Yeah! - That will make it very easy but unfortunately, I didn’t have this equipment. :crybaby: No, the rings are made with a turning lathe. (Hope that is the right word, comes from Babelfish) :D

@Cryogenic Filmworks:
The dial faces? You mean this pieces? http://www.kipp.com/cms/wm?catId=16...0672a5d7dc25&showTables=true&nextFamily=false

“...do you plan on selling your design/template/specs?”
NO, because I didn’t have anything more drawings or something like that. That’s why I’m posting the making of pictures. A little wink for you and all other who planning to build a skater (I post it also @ the HBS-Forum): Short before I finish my Skater, I take a look into the Skater User Manual (you find it on the P+S homepage). On the first site, there is a very nice drawing of the Skater! Make it bigger and you have a much better shape then mine!

So, here we go! Here is the first footage from my RADIATUS! Radiatus H264.mov

PS: Right now I’m building the laser pointer for it!
 
Cryogenic Filmworks said:
RWM that thing is gorgeous. Where did you pick up the dial faces? And do you plan on selling your design/template/specs?

:thumbsup:
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I think he means the black A, B ,and C dials that you use to measure the angle of the shot.
 
Man all you need now is a rope, a dog, and some snausages and you've got yourself a remote control dollycam. It's a thing of beauty. Nice job!
 
I assume since I saw that curved dolly move in the vid that you can get that out of it. Is it just the front one or all three? Does making all three wheels adjustable give you the potential for a different sort of move? I'm thinking about making one of these myself. Or fantasizing anyway.

Thanks.
 
RWM - Nice piece of engineering!

Does it matter if the rotation plates/wheel hubs on the base platform are exactly the same distance from each other? Or to put it another way, what is the distance relationship between each of the wheels?

thanks,


dmc
 
dmc, the distance between the wheels depends of the Skater size. You have to find the middle of the Skater, measured from the rotation axis of each wheel.
 
Thanks RWM,

So just to be clear, it's the same exact distance from each of the wheel centers to the midpoint (where the camera mounts) of the skater that matters?

For some reason I thought that maybe the wheel centers had to form an equilateral triangle so that the calculation chart works the same.



dmc
 
is there anyway you could write a step by step tutorial with pictures and a list of materials that you need and possibly even where to get them all. thanks!
 
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