Patron God of Pirates
02-26-2014, 10:29 AM
For reasons we all know scopes are rather impractical in paintball. If you did fancy a scope most modern markers place the feed neck right where the scope would go. When head checking in paintball we don't need to view a pinpoint spot which is likely out of breaking range, we need to take in as much information as possible as quickly as possible.
I was watching some video playback from my head mounted Go-Pro last and realized that the hopper is often right in the way. Next year I'll be barrel mounting. But it got me thinking; wouldn't it be great if I could mount the LCD BacPac (which I never use for battery life reasons) on the back of my HALO. Which got me thinking further, wouldn't it be great if I had a force feed hopper built to this purpose.
So I blew apart an old Nikon digital camera that I had. My idea was to mount the camera section to the front of the HALO, the LCD on the back, and the controls on the thumb side of a grip frame. Well it didn't work. The printed ribbon cable was to short to make the run(s). It looked like pretty custom stuff and I was unable to find market available alternatives (but I didn't look very hard).
That said, I still think the idea is worth exploring. The GoPro method is actually the easiest because the BacPac hooks up via mini USB. But I think a built to purpose camera/hopper would be the better (less clunky) solution. It would fill the roles of scope, action camera, and force feed loader all in one.
/RamblingIdeaOnAOBecauseEveryOnceAndAWhileSomebodyT akesTheBallAndRunsWithIt
I was watching some video playback from my head mounted Go-Pro last and realized that the hopper is often right in the way. Next year I'll be barrel mounting. But it got me thinking; wouldn't it be great if I could mount the LCD BacPac (which I never use for battery life reasons) on the back of my HALO. Which got me thinking further, wouldn't it be great if I had a force feed hopper built to this purpose.
So I blew apart an old Nikon digital camera that I had. My idea was to mount the camera section to the front of the HALO, the LCD on the back, and the controls on the thumb side of a grip frame. Well it didn't work. The printed ribbon cable was to short to make the run(s). It looked like pretty custom stuff and I was unable to find market available alternatives (but I didn't look very hard).
That said, I still think the idea is worth exploring. The GoPro method is actually the easiest because the BacPac hooks up via mini USB. But I think a built to purpose camera/hopper would be the better (less clunky) solution. It would fill the roles of scope, action camera, and force feed loader all in one.
/RamblingIdeaOnAOBecauseEveryOnceAndAWhileSomebodyT akesTheBallAndRunsWithIt