I bought a selfies stick and immediately realized it wasn't going to work how it was. I needed the phone to be able rotate up and down, while also having a stable base. The selfie stick I bought didn't rotate at all.
So, I cut off the part sticking off of the phone holder and one of the sides of the stick. I went to Home Depot and scoured around until I found these two plates used for plumbing. I connected a plate to the side of the selfie stick, and then put two bolts in the bridge to make it so that the other side of the plate had enough room to rotate freely while the other side was locked in place.
I forgot to take pictures of all of the next steps I did, so here is a summary below
I connected the phone holder to the rotating metal plate using zip ties
I got an old hanger from my closet to use as pullies I could put in the continuous rotation motor.
I cut off two of the turbines of the servo motor so they wouldn't get in the way
I measured the length needed to connect the selfie stick head and the servo and then bent the hanger to keep it in place
Then I also attached the servo to the selfie stick. This was harder than I thought it would be. The selfie stick was round and made out of metal so it was difficult for my drill to go through it. I made two holes, but I accidentally made them in line with the servo, so I ended up making a complicated zip tie pattern to attach to motor.
Then I connected the selfie stick to the base using zip ties and that was the end of this step!
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