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Possible (rational) to build your own electronic camera rotator?

Equipment Rotator DIY
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Anderl avatar
Anderl avatar
Well, i would like to have an electronic camera rotator but i don’t want to pay +600 bucks for a thing that simply rotates my camera. 

i own a esprit 120 and therefore already have a option to rotate my cam manually. 
If anyone of you guys knows or can think of a cheap diy way of making my manual rotator working automatically it would be great. 

cs
Andi
andrea tasselli avatar
andrea tasselli avatar
It has been done in the past, at least I seem to remember reading about it on the OnStep mailing list. I could make one for sure, given time and patience, it ain't terribly that difficult. Finding the components might be, if you aren't into maching/3D printing.
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