The Monkey Arm: DIY flexible clamp tripod

Posted 6 July, 2006 in Camera Hacking & DIY

I truly detest carrying around a tripod unless I know I’m going to need it. However, I do find myself needing an extra level of stability quite often. To solve the problem I threw together this, The Monkey Arm. The Monkey Arm consists of a length of Locline with a clamp epoxied on one end and a quarter twenty screw on the other. Locline is a modular hose system used predominantly in salt water aquarium tanks.

Read instructions at Munkey Film

Via MAKE Blog

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December 6, 2006 at 6:19 pm

DIY bendy mount-anywhere tripod…

Here’s a DIY version of the GorillaPod, a portable, flexible tripod. The GorillaPod is expensive and not very stable, even with a small pocket digicam. Hopefully this will get the same or better stability for way less money. Looks like it should…

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