They are made by a American company called GoPro and this is the HD model. I picked it up for £270 from this small online shop. The camera shoots in various modes including 720p @ 60 Fps(for some nice slow mo action), 960p @ 30Fps and 1080p @ 30Fps. It also has a Time lapse feature that takes photos in intervals of 2,5,10,30 and 60 seconds. It takes a SD card up to 32Gb and can record for about 2.5 hours on a single charge.

Here’s what’s Included (The suction mount that’s usually an extra £30 was free with a special offer minidvcam had on at the time of purchase)

After the first week of playing around with the camera and the various mounts I put this quick video together. Here you get an idea of what the camera is capable of

I decided to set my self a little project and make a 360 pano time lapse motor. I got the Inspiration from Rambo on the GoPro forums. Check out the following videos to see my first tests..

Below is the rig I used to capture the above time lapses. click ‘MORE’ below to see how I made this…

To make the pano head I first wanted to make a tripod mount for the camera. GoPro do sell these mounts for £10 but I thought I would try doing it my self…

I used the plastic stand the camera came attached to in the box and cut it out with a coping saw.

With the help of my next door neighbour we used his lathe to machine out two parts that could be threaded to fit a standard tripod mount.

Here’s the finished custom nut.

I then drilled some small holes in the base of the mount I cut out earlier. This provides a better gluing area.

I then used a generous amount of epoxy resin (Araldite) to glue the nuts to the mount and the cooking timer.

I left it all to dry for 24 hours then it was good to go. Below is a picture of the set up in action at the top of a country park near me.

Another custom mount I made was this Bike mount. I again bothered my neighbour this time to use his CNC milling machine to flatten off the top surface of an old bike light attachment. You can see this in the picture below. I then scored the surface to add extra grip. I drilled a hole through one of the existing GoPro mounts and glued in a bolt that then fastens to the bike mount.

Here’s the complete construction

And here’s it attached to the bike frame..

   Over all I’m really happy with this purchase! I think its such a great little camera with so many possibilities..

If you are thinking about buying one of these and want to know more please feel free to leave a comment below ill get back to you as soon as I can

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My role was to create the DVDs showcasing everyone’s show reels. My original plan was to get them produce at the same place as I got the Trent snowsports DVDs made. I realised that I had very little time and finally had to make the choice to produce them our selves. So I brought 100 printable DVDs then got a team of people to help burn and print the discs. Phil came over with his pc and we got started on burning the 100 discs with only two drives! while the discs were being made we were also spray painting the monster media logo on each disc with two different colours. There were 5 people working together and we managed to get them all done in roughly four hours.

The exhibition was held in one of the studio rooms. It had been rearranged creating a really nice space.

The pc screens had been attached to some false walls with track ball mice for control. Second year students had produced a really nice interface that displayed all our work. In the centre of the room were two tables where we put the catalogues, DVDs and business cards.

For the show I updated my business card once again! below are some photos of the updated card and the holder I made using a flexible phone holder. I’ve also made some mini cards that I can hand out to people so they can get to my photos but not spam my phone number.

Over all I was really pleased with the out come of the show! I think everyone put a lot of time and effort into it which paid off! I just cant believe its all over.. only thing left is to wait for my results to come through… eeek

Nice one..