gimbalbar
macOS menu bar app to aim a DJI Osmo Pocket 3 over USB, with live preview
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GITHUB · launched Oct 21, 2026 · 11 upvotes (top 91%)
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- Hardware & robotics
- Prosumer
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- Hobby / open-source project
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Partial A menu bar app with a live preview UI is straightforward, but controlling the DJI gimbal over USB depends on an undocumented protocol that must be reverse-engineered.
What it would actually take: Use Swift or Objective-C for the menu bar app, libusb or IOKit for USB access, and AVFoundation or UVC capture for the live preview. The hard part is reverse-engineering DJI's USB command protocol for gimbal orientation, which means packet capture, decoding, and handling firmware differences. That needs embedded or reverse-engineering skills and access to the hardware for testing.
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Attention rank: #896 of 945 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 357 days after the earliest competitor.
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