Better CMUcam2 Mount - Chief Delphi

27-02-2008, 22:23

MrForbes

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Re: Better CMUcam2 Mount

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Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik

I think the main issue it that, while a ribbon cable would bend pretty easily in the up-down direction. But getting it to twist so you can do the panning motion.. I think that would be a good bit more difficult.

didn't see this until just now...but it should be easy to make ribbon cable bend both directions, if you just fold the cable over at a 45 degree angle, like they used to do on the original IBM PC floppy drive cables. (showing my age again)

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