When first testing your slider, the motor may be hooked up the wrong way and the end stop switches may not do anything as the code is waiting for the wrong switch to be triggered. Hook up the battery and get ready to turn off the slider very quickly. Once in position Arduino analogue pin A4 drops to ground and can be used to trigger your camera.Ĭheck out this instructable I made to show you haw to hack a cheap IR remote to trigger your camera using an arduino. This allows you to do time lapse photography and produce 15 seconds of footage if played back at 24 fps. One mode moves the slider head back and forth at a speed governed by the position of the potentiometer and the other steps the slider 0.5mm, 360 times with a delay governed by the potentiometer. There are two modes that I incorporated into the code. Upload the code and disconnect from the computer. Make sure that the mode switch is centered to ensure the slider wont't take off once uploaded. This is shown in the image above.Ĭonnect the arduino to your computer via a USB mini cable and select the correct COM port in the IDE. Once on your computer, open the file in the Arduino IDE and select the appropriate board type.
#ARDUINO CAMERA IDEAS DOWNLOAD#
Right click 'Slider_code.ino' and hit save as to download it. I found this one by Dave Jones from the EEVBlog youtube channel, to be quite useful.
There are some fantastic soldering tutorials online, so it is highly recommended that you check them out if you have not done soldering for a long time. The stepper motor can draw a substantial amount of current, so make sure you connect all GND connections to the exact same pin so large currents are not passed through the small copper tracks on the arduino.This can be done visually for now but if problems occur you may have to resort to probing with a multi meter. Check that all solder joint are well formed and that no excess solder is shorting any of the pins.See the left most diagram on the 3rd image. Be sure to split the copper tracks on the veroboard between the row of pins on the left / right hand side of the arduino and the step stick motor driver.Follow the visual circuit diagram / pin map that I created and you should be fine. There is very little to say in this section. I could really do with my own 3D printer! The vote button is just right of the title, at the top of the page. If you found this instructable useful, inspiring or interesting please consider voting for it in the 3D printer contest. It looks like a really nice piece of kit, however it is far beyond what I was willing to spend with my limited filming experience. It later came to light that a start-up on kickstarter had already implemented this design and had started the patent process. The beauty of this design is that the two slider heads move in different directions and allo w a camera to move further for a given length slider. The dual rail design was inspired by a cliff elevator.
The last 2 clips were done by combining this project with my earlier D40 remote hack to create a moving time lapse. The video below was shot at Dartmoor National Park using this slider. Using both 3D printed parts and parts used in 3D printers, this slider costs a fraction of the price of commercially available sliders and can be modified to suit you.
#ARDUINO CAMERA IDEAS HOW TO#
In this step by step guide you will lean how to make your very own arduino controlled, motorized camera slider.
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