I purchased a joystick from Hague camera, in the UK, and it overcomes all the limitations of the standard remote. Smooth control of the Bescor pan/tilt head, from a standstill to full speed. They appear to have designed a fairly simple circuit that does a decent job of extending the control of the bescor beyond the standard remote. But at 85 british pounds it is not cheap. The joystick that they use is a fairly rudimentary CTS Series 252 switcha ‘mini’ joystickthat does not come close to the smooth control offered by the joystick on a Nintendo Nunchukbut it does work as designed and gives good measure of control. Your ‘virtual’ joystick is intriguing (as was your other explorations with the hardwired joystick).

My ears perked up when you mentioned a timelapse option. What a great addition that would bedial in settings X=.

Mozilla firefox portable for mac 220 7. Y= and let the controller pan and tilt for an hour or so with repeatable results. I could see this being very useful with my camtree motorized slider—it would be wonderful to be able to use the bescor on that in concert with a camera in timelapse mode Good luck with your experimenting.

Found your blog searching for a bluetooth controller for the Bescor figuring there has to be a tool out there that allows a wireless control approach for that pan/tilt device. I am pleased that you’re working in this area and also disappointed that there is not greater progress (this is not a criticism of your work but a lament that there has not been more work in this area.) Thinking about it, though, the use of phones and the capacity of a device to control the pan-tilt device it occurred to me that the use of the phone’s GPS may create a way to do the follow me capability of the soloshot device; possibly with greater capability. (These items depend on line of sight and have issues in direct sunlight because of their use of IR.) I’m uncertain of how accurate gps may be but I am wondering if a calibration routine could be engineered to fine tune the signals allowing it to automatically aim the camera to something like the controlling cell phone. Is that something in your mind worth pursuing?

★Like the video? The Bescor MP 101 is now one of my key pieces of equipment in my video and audio arsenal. It provides really smooth pans and helps me set up my shots much quicker than before. In this video you will see how it functions on a tripod and some of the footage you can get by using the Bescor.

I would definitely recommend this if you are wanting to get some smooth shots from your camera or just make your whole recording process a lot easier! Amazon Links (aff) Bescor MP 101: Bescor AC Adapter: Bescor Remote Extension: Watch my unboxing for some more footage of it on the tripod head. --- My Gear Canon T3i: SanDisk Extreme SDHC 32 GB Card: Blue Spark: Rode Videomic: Alesis MultiMix USB: --- Social Networks Twitter: Instagram: Facebook: Google+: Gaming Channel: My website.

Maxwell Electronic Power Panner, aka Bescor MP-101 Motorized Pan Head, aka. The head can operate in two panning modes — manually controlled.