Wheelchair Camera Mount
I'm a quadriplegic, no movement below my shoulders, I drive my wheelchair with a joystick chin controller, very simple, if i push the joystick forward and release that will put the chair in drive, then any direction I push on the joystick I go, i have a Panasonic HMC150, PROAIM JR. PAN TILT, and a varizoom record on/off, zoom in/out controller, i'm looking for somebody that has knowledge/ideas for me to make the record on/off, zoom in/out, pan/tilt joystick more compact so that i can control everything with my chin, face, and/or mouth
i would love to be able to control my chair and operate the camera functions but that might be asking too much
take a look below to see my set up so far
I HAVE:
Proaim Jr. Pan Tilt Head with Joystick Control
Lilliput 669GL-70NP/C-HB 7" HB VGA HDMI Monitor-Highbrightness with a 1.00 12V Battery
VZ-Stealth-DVX Stealth Zoom Controller
Batteries to power everything
I use a modified xbox 360 controller made by quadcontrol.com to play video games so one idea is to use the same idea. video
I was thinking about having a control box similar to my Xbox 360 controller(pictures below) made, so the joystick portion of the controller will move the pan/tilt and the Record/Zoom control could be buttons or sip and puff switches
inside the pan/tilt controller there are two plugs going from the circuit board to the joystick, each plug has 3 wires, so unplug and wires from joystick and extend wires to a new control box, I could have the original control mounted somewhere else on my chair so I wouldn't have to put the rather large original components in the new controller, just use the joystick control wires going to the new controller, then take apart the Zoom/Focus/Iris & Zoom Control and find a place to mount on new controller using the original plug to put in the back of camera
I also have a r/c truck i control using an airplane controller, I only use the right joystick, it does forward, reverse, and turn, video of me controlling truck
any ideas, suggestions, and/or help will be appreciated - i live in the city of Orange, CA 92865
if you read this thanks for looking
sean
Sean Kelley
Email
Phone - 714-656-4142
