My DIY motorized/timelapse head

Dmax

Dmax

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I love electronics as much as I love my my camera, Ive not made
anything for ages so its about time I got my soldering iron out :) so this last few weeks Ive been working on this thing , Im not following any plans and just making it up as I go along so I do hope it will work when its done lol.

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the camera mount is from an old tripod I had laying around. I made a simple slip ring using

copper wire to feed the tilt motor and infrared led to trigger my camera you can see this

running round the base. the LCD will display info and you will be able to set the amount of

shots, how long between each shot and a few other things. I'm thinking of fitting a socket

so I can plug a PIR into the unit and get that to trigger the camera just incase I want to

go out and take a some wildlife shots.

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I was going to use stepper motors but as I had two small Dc motors I'm using these with a

opto counter from an old microsoft mouse so the micro controler will know where it is.

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I've fixed a screw mount so the unit can be fitted to my tripod.

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here you can see one of the opto counters there is also one more that you cant see in the

picture to tell the micro when its done one revolution.

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and heres a picture showing the picmicro,sitting on top of that is one of the H bridge

circuits but I will changing this with a IC to save space.

I have the basic code up and running but still have a lot to do. the unit triggers my nikon

camera with a infrared LED but it will also have a socket to fit other camers.
I hope to have it ready in a few weeks, right now Im waiting for some H bridge Ic's to come

in the post. I will post up a video when its up and running. cant wait to take it out the and get some sunrise/sunset footage using it :) .

Thanks for looking :)
 
Very good project you have there mate!!

Get a video knocked up of the final product in action. ;)
 
Nice work DMax. :cool:
I look forward to any updates on your progress and of course the first test outing!
 
Excellent stuff. Useful little beasties them PICs :)
 
Wow ............ you've been busy ........... love to see some results soon and ...... take it on Dragons Den
 
Nice, looks like you've done a good job with the housing and the LCD display is a cool feature.
 
sweet mother of jaffa cookies !!!! that's one hell of a thing.
have you tested/tried it out ?


Alan - your avatar goes together nicely with that burger timer ! :lol:
good thinking though.
 
Starastin said:
sweet mother of jaffa cookies !!!! that's one hell of a thing.
have you tested/tried it out ?


Alan - your avatar goes together nicely with that burger timer ! :lol:
good thinking though.
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Works ok but limited to 60 mins horizontal movement only and cannot control when the camera fires....

...unlike the amazing creation above, which appears to move in both vertical and horizontal planes and control when the camera fires too. :thumbs:
 
Thats cool stuff Danny, can I place an order for the first one off the production line? look forward to seeing you on Dragons Den :lol:
 
Looking forwartd to seeing the photo's / footage.

I wish I had the knowledge to do things likle this !!!
 
thanks for the feedback guys :) . I'm just waiting for some H-bridge Ic's to come in the post then it should be ready to go :).

Starastin Ive had it working at a basic level by that I mean Ive got it firing my camera and turning round but all in manual mode (pressing the buttons) as I had not wrote the code at that point so I know it works. now its just a matter of wiring the micro controler up sorting out a few more bits in the program code so it should be ready to go in a week or so . :)
 
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