{"id":7419,"date":"2005-06-24T18:17:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-24T22:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2005\/06\/24\/isight-tripod-adapter\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:33:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:33:20","slug":"isight-tripod-adapter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2005\/06\/24\/isight-tripod-adapter\/","title":{"rendered":"iSight Tripod Adapter"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As a number of people who own an iSight<\/a> know, there really is no easy way to mount it to a tripod. While there are a number of hacks out there for doing this (eg: 1<\/a> · 2<\/a> ), I wanted something a bit more stable. There is a commercial product sold as part of the Kaidan Accessory Kit<\/a>, but that requires one to use a thin Apple FireWire cable, and those are prohibitively expensive.<\/p>\n

This morning while laying in bed I decided that I wanted to solve this problem so I could use my iSight on a tripod. So, I came up with the idea you see above and stuck one together this afternoon. In short, it’s a piece of 3\/4″ PVC, a domed cap, a 14-20 tee nut, a 3m Belkin FireWire cable, and some hot melt glue. The PVC and hot melt glue were just laying around the basement, and I had originally purchased ten of the 3m FireWire cables on eBay about two years ago for $20 shipped. The tee nut cost $0.25\/ea at Home Depot (read: overpriced) when purchased four at a time in a small plastic bag. PVC is cheap, so for a total of less than US$5 and about an hour’s worth of planning and building (and waiting for the glue to cool) I had the adapter.<\/p>\n

There’s a good bit of room for improvement. If I were to make another, the first thing I’d change is the hot melt glue. While it works well, it’s hard to control. I’d try to find a way to apply it more smoothly, or I may dump it for a very thick epoxy. Second is the large hole cut in the back. I’d instead cut a slot and run the cable up through that, hiding all of the slot beneath the cap, leaving only a bit at the top where the cable comes out. It might also have been nice to use a cap on the top as well, with a simple cut-out for the FireWire connector. This may also allow me to use less hot melt glue \/ epoxy overall.<\/p>\n

Hopefully people will find this useful. I know the iSight isn’t anything new, but being able to finally point it wherever I want and having a reasonably long cable should be extremely useful.<\/p>\n

I’ve got a few more pictures up here which should be useful if anyone here wants to build one for themselves, or if you just want to look around:<\/p>\n

· The iSight tripod adapter and cable.<\/a>
\n· Detail of the back of the adapter.<\/a>
\n· The bottom of the adapter showing how the tee nut is mounted inside the PVC cap.<\/a>
\n· The FireWire connector end of the iSight tripod adapter.<\/a>
\n· A tee nut, just like the one used in the adapter.<\/a>
\n· My iSight mounted on the tripod adapter.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[Crossposted to and …] Click for more… As a number of people who own an iSight know, there really is no easy way to mount it to a tripod. While there are a number of hacks out there for doing this (eg: 1 · 2 ), I wanted something a bit more stable. There is\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-making-things","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14210,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7419\/revisions\/14210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}