This DIY drone handle lets you handhold a DJI Phantom 3 as a dedicated gimbal
Feb 24, 2016
Gannon Burgett
Gannon Burgett is a communications professional with over a decade of experience in content strategy, editing, marketing, multimedia content creation. He’s photographed and written content seen across hundreds of millions of pageviews. In addition to his communications work for various entities and publications, Gannon also runs his multimedia marketing agency, Ekleptik Media, where he brings his expertise as a full-stack creator to help develop and execute data-driven content strategies. His writing, photos, and videos have appeared in USA Today, Car and Driver, Road & Track, Autoweek, Popular Mechanics, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Digital Trends, DPReview, PetaPixel, Imaging Resource, Lifewire, Yahoo News, Detroit Free Press, Lansing State Journal, and more.
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DIY Drones are wonderful and powerful tools designed with some of the best gimbal systems around. While the gimbals are obviously useful when flying throughout the skies, it’s equally good on land…so long as you can somehow hold your drone.
Enter the DIY 3D-printed handle for DJI’s Phantom 3 drone.
Created by Thingiverse user Zoti and shared in a video by Rob & Jonas’ Filmmaking Tips, this 3D printed drone handle will let you use the gimbal and camera system of your drone in places where it’s either too low or otherwise dangerous to fly.
The process is fairly straightforward. Download the 3D design as an STL file and either find someone you know with a 3D printer or use an on-demand 3D printing service such as Shapeways to create your drone handle.
The handle is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0, so it’s fair game to share with friends, alter as you see fit and otherwise make use of it, so long as you share credit with the creator, Zoti, and share under the same license.
Watch the video to catch a glimpse of just how effective the handle is.
Let us know if you decide to either print one yourself or have one printed on your behalf. We’d be interested to see how it turns out.
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Image credits: Photos by Zoti used under CC BY-SA 3.0
Gannon Burgett
Gannon Burgett is a communications professional with over a decade of experience in content strategy, editing, marketing, multimedia content creation. He’s photographed and written content seen across hundreds of millions of pageviews. In addition to his communications work for various entities and publications, Gannon also runs his multimedia marketing agency, Ekleptik Media, where he brings his expertise as a full-stack creator to help develop and execute data-driven content strategies. His writing, photos, and videos have appeared in USA Today, Car and Driver, Road & Track, Autoweek, Popular Mechanics, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Digital Trends, DPReview, PetaPixel, Imaging Resource, Lifewire, Yahoo News, Detroit Free Press, Lansing State Journal, and more.
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