A test of a servo-driven pan head. The servo isn't precise enough to make smooth motion in tiny increments.
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posted: March 09 2010 23:40:26.
camera sweep
A first test of a motion controlled camera and time lapse shooting.
Having recently acquired an Arduino and retrieved the servos from my radio control hobby past, I whipped up this quick test to see how motion can work with timelapse. The Arduino tells the servo to step one degree, rotating the camera, which then takes a shot. The camera was bolted to a wood plate balanced over the center of the servo's rotation. A big clamp held the whole thing upright.
Any permanent set up needs to be very stable and the servo alone does not have enough precision: a step of one degree is far too coarse for smooth motion.
To download the movie file, right click here.
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posted: March 04, 2010
how to paint a mosaic
We decided that the wall behind our kitchen counter needed something.
Painting a bit map on the wall involves the following steps:
1. find an image and convert it to a 2 colour bitmap with pixel dimensions as wide and high, in inches, as the surface to be painted.
2. cover the surface with strips of masking tape
3. draw a grid on the masking tape
4. transfer the pattern to the wall and cut and peel the masking tape
5. paint the wall
6. peel the tape
(step 6 is surprisingly frustrating.)
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posted: March 03, 2010
snow egg
We finally had enough snow and the right temperatures to have snow that sticks. We made a snow man and then this snow egg complete with snow couch where Riley happily sat, eating snow and drinking snow from a cup.
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posted: February 27, 2010
night fall
Some more experimentation with time lapse and varied shutter speed and timing. The original plan was to run the camera until dawn but it gave up just after 10pm. Maybe the cold was too much for it.
To download the movie click here.
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posted: February 08, 2010