In our original car setup, the video camera was mounted in the car on the rear strut brace. From this location you could see out the front window of the car and watch the course we would race.
We had two problems with this location. First the rear strut brace was a round bar, and the camera mount kept slipping forward. Second you could see part of the driver as he drove the course, and folks watching the video would not view the video without make comments on the drivers actions. The original reason for the in car video was to show Internet viewers the course layout, and how the car maneuvers between the cones.
For this reason, we went back to the drawing board and redesigned a new camera mount. We removed the passenger seat, and designed a camera mount that would bolt to the seat brackets that were welded to the floor. This new camera mount would accommodate multiple cameras in different angles, and move the camera within reach of the driver for more control of the camera.
Our first new redesign was going to be a pyramid with a flat plate on top for the camera to sit on. Then we found you could not adjust the angle of the camera on a flat plate. We replaced the flat plate with a six-inch bar and reused the existing camera mounting clamp. The problem with this design was that it was too hard to build, and would only hold one camera at a time.
So we went simple and design a lite weight box. It would be twelve inches by seventeen inches, and twenty-four inches off the floor. This box would be bolt down and could be removed at anytime.
