Intro:
Interview As our title suggests, we at the Special Projects Bureau like a nice project, so we're pleased to share with you today reader Stuart Smith's ambitious 3-axis stabiliser for the GoPro HERO3 - dubiously dubbed the "Stubilizer".
A 3D rendering of the Stubilizer The Stubilizer in 3D rendered glory Stuart's an IT consultant based in Ipswich, Suffolk, but when he's not fiddling for his supper down at the likes of British Airways, he's slaving over a hot 3D printer in his pursuit of his dream to take the stabiliser market by storm.
He and his company RockSolid Technologies will shortly be rattling the tin on Kickstarter, hoping to raise cash to get the Stubilizer into full production.
The development process has been heavy on CAD and 3D printing, so we asked Stuart - who was a novice in both areas when he started the project
- to explain just how the journey to the current working prototype has been. Read on...