CUSTOM BUILT MOBILE LIVE STREAM CART

Dream it.

It all begins with an idea and an obstinate partner….aka stubborn MacGirl. She had some crazy cart concept and stuck me with the “make it work” side of the deal.

Between the two of us, meaning mostly me, I started searching the depths of our secret labs for the parts needed to create a crowd-threading mobile live production device with wireless interview capabilities and multi-cam birdnested Gopro cameras, and multiple switchers, and minimal wires, and packable power, and snack cooler, and drink holder, with 1000 foot wireless roaming radius thru tall buildings in a single bound, and most importantly, its own privately owned multi-drone-port in a sleek street worthy cloudy Frankencart that she continues to call the Monstercart.

What the heck MacGirl?!?

Build it.

First thing…. The wheels sucked that came with the cart. We had to update that to start and give it some power because it would need a lot of power to run all the devices that I needed to make the production output a true success. RV battery, 8” air filled tires and a built-in Chager. The cart will be able to be parked and one plug to charge the battery.

So, the plan is...

I have to get all this into the cart:

ATEM Mini, Insta360, GoPro, 24” monitor, iPad, drone and remote, Raspberry Pi Companion, 2nd iPad, LiveU Streaming encoder, wireless portable router, 12v battery, Sling Studio, 3 Camlinks, multiple battery packs, Dtap wires, Landing pad, and about 20 miles of wire.

But wait there’s more, Problem discovered was the range of 200’ line of site. Overheating was a possible problem, and all the potential failure points and blind switching.

Back to the lab….

Grant Application

In order to make this more robust and reliable I applied for a grant: Yolobox Pro, Hollyland 4k wireless transmitter/receiver set, voltage regulator/booter, DC powered 24” monitor, custom made wire looms.

The Yolobox Pro runs on battery for a while at least. We need to extend that with custom chargers. The monitor runs on 14 volt. Now how to get 14 volt out of a 12 volt battery without using a energy hungry inverter that we were going to use originally. The portable battery packs just wont due.