This is an overview of the side mounted camera system I designed and built for capturing footage of an amatuer rocket flight. As described below, errors / slowdowns on launch day casued a loss of later footage, so I have not included the bit of video looking at the launchpad. 

This is a set of test prints to demonstrate the concept for my then proposed camera system. The purpose of this was firstly, to test functionality of my design with parts modeled to represent the actual parts, and secondly, to demonstrate  the proposed design to my team captains to secure faith in my project.

This is the final product after assembly. There is a small analog camera which records onto a sd card DVR, and all of it is powered by a 500mAh LiPo. While everything worked as projected, the size of the battery turned out o be a bad choice (see next image). Additionally, I ran into some issues with difficulty 3d printing the parts, but with some mild modifications I was able to resolve the issues. I did learn a bit from modeling the parts with the constraints of trying to keep everything as packed in flat and small as possible to provide better aerodynamics.

Here you can see me mounting the system to the rocket before launch. The base is secured with probably a bit too much epoxy. There are two screws which connect to internal nuts to hold everything together. As mentioned in the previous image, the size of the battery was a bit small. Due to delays during launch setup and the launch sequence moving too slow, the camera ran out of power only capturing some lovely video of the launch pad. If I reuse the system, I plan on doubling the capacity to 1000mAh for extra insurance.