Flip Teleprompter

I found great teleprompter software for the Apple iPhone / ipod touch ... but the commercial brackets seemed, well, like overkill for what I wanted: a teleprompter just for my new Flip UltraHD.

Here are plans for making a teleprompter for your Flip - or other small video camera. The software is from Bodelin Technologies at the Apple App Store.

Updates will be posted at ...

http://tinyurl.com/flip-prompter

Clint Bradford

Available at BestBuy (Dynex brand) or RitxCamera.com (Smith Victor brand).

Staples has these 5" black metal bookends.

Align the bookend edge so the Flip fits right to where the flash bracket starts to angle.

Drill a 1/4" hole in the bookend to accommodate the tripod mount screw.

Use the thin washer that comes with the bracket.

Add a layer of double-sided stick tape between the bottom of the bookend and the top of the bracket. Makes it all more sturdy. The inch-long piece of Velcro(r) loop to the left is just to create a flat surface for the Flip to mount to.

The Flip mounted to the bracket. Note the Velcro(r) hook added to parts of the bookend ...

Adding Velcro(r) loop to the back of a hard plastic case on the iPod touch - in this case (pun intended), an Agent18 case.

And here's both the Flip and the touch mounted solidly to your bracet.

A little added illumination never hurts. From BestBuy, this Dynex DX-VIDLT suits the project. But it's only powered by two AAA alkaline cells. Surely we can improve THAT, can't we?

So that I can use the light in its original state later on, I just used alligator clips on the positive and negative battery contacts ...

Trim a notch in the battery cover for the new leads.

I soldered the leads directly to the battery contacts in this Radio Shack 2XAA case, instead of splicing. Just made it cleaner.

New AA case mounts to the bookend. Where would this society be without Velcro(r) and double-sided sticky tape???

Your completed Flip 'Prompter! The software for your iPhone or iPod touch is "ProPromoter" from Bodelin Technologies. Available in Apple's App Sore for $9.95 - and is well worth the investment if you want to make yourself - or your subjects - look more professional.

View from the rear. Why didn't I whack off the "tongue" of the bookend? 'Cause I though i might mount something there in the future.