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The camera Pod

Before I went about making the FPV pod, I set aside a few goals I wanted to achieve.  First and foremost I wanted it to be small and portable so that it could easily fit inside my ground station and be easily placed on smaller models.  Secondly, I didn't want to give it an independent battery because this would make it too large and heavy.  Lastly, I wanted the antenna to be easily accesible so that I could collapse it for transport.  With these three goals in mind, I went ahead and started constructing the pod. 

The Build

The first thing I did was measure out a strip of balsa that would attach to the back of my transmitter.  I measured it so that it would be slightly larger than the transmitter's footprint.  
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Next, I cut out a section of foam that would sit in between the transmitter and the balsa.  I did this because the back of the transmitter was not an even surface and would not sit square against the balsa unless there was some sort of medium in between.  
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After the transmitter was in place, I took some black PVC heat-shrink and wrapped everything up so that it would stay together.  I also cut out a small square above the heat-sink for ventilation.  I then went ahead and made some cable adapters for the camera.  One was a servo-to-video cable and the other was a JST for powering the transmitter.  
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The last thing I did was mount the transmitter and camera vertically onto another piece of balsa.  I cut a small channel for the camera to sit in and then  used CA to connect both the camera and transmitter to the bottom plate of balsa.
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