Did some more KAP (Kite Aerial Photography) using my Hamster Ball camera rig this bank holiday weekend. Great performance from the kite. Using the new longer/stronger line managed to get the kite up to about 150ft.
There was still a lot of violent bouncy motion making the ball and camera swing around like mad. This caused the first of my problems. The MECANO parts of the Picavet cross came apart due to a loose nut. I made a running repair.
The Arduino battery came loose several times before the camera bounced out of the pod and the battery was lost in the long grass. The above picture was one that I actually managed to get. I'll need to angle the camera towards the horizon. It's almost impossible to determine the height due to the lack of points of reference.
Will be trying with a smaller camera and pod as well as taking the Arduino down to components to lighten the whole thing.
