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