Brushless gimbal for 10x zoom camera

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This is a two axis gimbal for a 10x zoom camera that I purchased from surveillzone.com I could not find a decent offering, so I decided to design my own. This can be easily modded to include a third axis. The motors and controller that I used came off the cheap aluminum banggood gimbal. The zoom camera itself will need to be removed from its metal casing, This will serve to reduce a great amount of weight also. The mounting screws for the motors top side are very near to the center hole and this makes them particularly hard to use in plastic, the holes are in the cad file and you may get them to work but I ended up using epoxy to glue the plastic to the motors and it worked to hold them in place. I subsequently consider this entire thing somewhat disposable if a motor were to go bad. The gimbal itself works well, I would suggest to print it in abs or petg. The body parts snap together with a tab/ slot mechanism and should last if printed with one of the suggested materials. There are holes for rubber dampener bulbs but one may need to drill four holes in the vibration dampener plate depending on how this is to be mounted.