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Homemade 2-axis gimbal using Arduino

  I present to you the cheapest camera or object stabilizer in the whole world ! A 2-axis gimbal that keeps an object steady in a certain position despite the movement of the base on which it is mounted. This means when the base keeps changing its position constantly, the object will remain stable and there won’t be any change in its position. It all started with my new ADXL345 and I thought to myself why not try and build a hand-held gimbal at home since these things are rather costly out there. So, I fired up max and as usual started working on the digital prototype or the blueprint. I had a few servos left from the previous project that I worked on and two of them were enough for this simple stabilizer. And I have learnt from my mistakes ! Knowing that these servos won't be able to put up with so much, I designed the frame in a way that would fairly distribute the load away from the motor. With all this in mind, I roughly designed the whole thing and tried to make i...