Hey guys!
I'm in the dark garage here because I want to show you a variation of the clear floating
GoPro pole.
I call these the glowpoles because they light up.
It's kind of interesting.
This one just does white but it's fairly bright.
And just turns on and off.
But this one is a little different because it does colors.
It cycles different colors and different patterns here.
I'm not a big fan of the flashing but the solid colors I kind of like.
And it goes to a white flashing and this last mode is kind of cool because it cycles through
these different colors real smoothly.
So I don't know how useful these are but I have a feeling that some people are going
to like them.
They're kind of cool.
When the lights are off, they're just a clear GoPro pole.
They're not waterproof, they don't float but they look like a regular pole when the lights
aren't on.
So what I'm going to do is show you how to build these.
They use most of the same parts as the regular clear floating gopro poles
And then I'm going to show you some footage from the cameras when they're mounted on these
poles with the lights on so you can see what it looks like.
So building these gopro poles is pretty easy.
They're not real complex.
If you haven't see the video for the floating clear gopro pole, you might want to watch
that.
It's got some background on how to build it and this is really similar.
The top starts out with a 3/4" CPVC cap.
It's not PVC, it's CPVC.
This is just a regular GoPro tripod adapter.
This is a 1/4-20 by half inch long screw or bolt and you'll probably need a spacer nut.
And right here I don't have the cap painted blackbut you would want to paint it black.
It looks better.
Just screw that on.
That's the top part.
The pole itself is acrylic.
The outside diameter is 7/8".
I'll put the specs in the description.
There are two thicknesses.
This is the thin.
They also have a thicker version so the outside diameter is the same but the interior diameter
is different.
So the wall thickness is thicker on the different version.
Then you need locking grips or lock-on grips.
They have these rings on both sides that tighten down.
To attach the end, if you're using it real easy you can just press the cap on but I advise
you to buy two part plastic epoxy and epoxy these together.
I go into much more detail on that in the floating clear gopro build.
The thicker tubing seems to show the LED colored lights better.
So if you're building that one you might want to go with the thicker tube but either one
will work.
For the white gopro pole you need a flashlight, a small LED flashlight with a diameter 22.5mm
or less.
That's 7/8 inch basically.
22.5 is the absolute max.
This one is an Energizer Tactical flashlight.
I believe the part number is 30F446.
It was all black like this when I bought it but it was just slightly to big so I had to
sand down the outer diameter which was a huge pain.
So I wouldn't recommend this one unless you absolutely can't find something better.
So it just inserts in the rear and you tighten it down.
It sticks in farther but it's kind of a tight fit and that's what lights up the pole.
So this flashlight needs to be at least 4 inches or less.
Four inches is the max dimension on that.
I've seen these flashlights other places like Cabelas and stuff like that but if you can
find a different flashlight with a slightly smaller diameter, that would be better.
This is just the only flashlight that I've been able to find locally that has close to
the right diameter.
You know I could go ordering stuff off the internet for days and come up with a lot of
flashlights that are the wrong diameter.
So just use what you can.
For the color changing version of this, you need an LED glow stick.
This I bought from Home Depot.
It's a hardware store.
I bought it for $4.
It comes with this rubber sleeve on here that I took off.
And then you unscrew the lens portion and you're left with this.
It's got the power on the end like we need and LEDs in there.
You do have to file or sand this rib on the end.
Not to much.
Just keep checking the fit until it fits in there tightly and then it inserts up to this
point and you've got the button on the rear to turn it on and change colors.
So it's pretty simple.
Just keep checking your fit when you're filing.
It's not very hard.
I do want to point out that these are not waterproof and they don't float.
I don't want you guys to be confused.
But when you are using them in the daytime it just looks like a normal clear gopro pole.
So kind of neat.
When it gets dark, then you've got some lights to turn on.
This this is what the video looks like when you have the GoPro mounted on the glowpole.
I have the pole straight up in the air and we're probably 8 feet from the garage door.
So it gives a nice glow.
You can definitely move around and not bump into things.
I'll walk around here just a little bit to show you how it works.
I don't know if you can see that back wall but it's probably 20 feet away.
This is the camera in kind of the typical selfie position with the camera filming back
at the user.
So you can see what that looks like.
So this is the camera mounted 90 degrees to the pole.
The pole is level with the horizon pointing straight at the garage door.
You can see the shadow of the camera right in the middle of the spot.
I'll just walk around here a little bit.
It's kind of like a flashlight this way.
So now I've switched poles.
I'm not even sure if you can see this.
The pole is straight up and down in the air with the camera facing towards the garage
door with the red LED on.
And there's the green.
There's a chance that you might be able to see that.
And there's the blue.
It does not project a lot of light.
And there's the color change.
Here is the camera back in the selfy position.
That's obviously the red on there.
That's it with it flashing.
On to the green.
The blue And here's the smooth color rolling.
And here again we've got the glowpole level with horzon with the camera at 90 degrees
on the end of the pole.
You can see the shadow of the camera in the middle of the red mark on the garage door
there.
There's the flashing.
There's green.
It's a lot brighter.
And there's the blue.
And here's the rolling colors.
I'll show you what it looks like on a different surface.
Here's a side of a car.
It's not very bright.
I would say that the colors are more for show.
So there you have it.
The new glowpoles.
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