About

After building the iSight Tripod Adapter for my Apple iSight I wanted a way to mount it in my car. After playing with the idea of some sort of in-grill or under-car mount (including building a housing which fit in place of a fog light) I ended up building this car mount.

Assembly

It is assembled very similarly to the iSight Tripod Adapter, with a PVC end cap used to hold the FireWire connector and hot melt glue in the body for stability. I then built a loop of PVC pipe, with a screw-type pipe clamp at the top, to allow the adapter to be hung from the rear view mirror of a car.

Wide slots were cut so the adapter could be pivoted forward and backward prior to tightening the clamp, allowing for variances in rear view mirror mounting / adjustment.

Small, built-up mounts of hot-melt glue were applied to the top of the mount beneath the band clamp to keep the mount from slipping on or scratching the rear view mirror or its mounting hardware.

As a 5m FireWire cable was used, the cable could then be run along the front edge of the head liner, down the A column, and fitted to a laptop securely fastened to the passenger seat.

Stop-motion recorded while driving.

Recordings

Using a copy of EvoCam I was able to easily record time-lapse video while driving. For full-speed recordings I would typically use Apple's QuickTime Pro. Click to play each of these videos, which were transcoded from H.264 file created with QuickTime Pro with Riva FLV Encoder.