I like my camera as much as the next guy, but it's missing a feature: an intervalometer. An intervalometer is a device or program that lets you take a series of pictures in a row at some interval. This lets you do, among other things, time lapse videos.
So like a good nerd I hacked one together using an arduino. It's about as simple as it gets. In my circuit I used an infrared LED and that's it (Sure I should have added a current limiting resistor, but I like throwing caution to the wind sometimes). I found online someone who already figured out the blink code to trigger a shutter release. I used his code and that was it!
To test it I took it up to the top of Mt. Tabor and snapped off a 8 second exposures continuously for almost an hour. Later I took the results and used blender to stitch them into a video. And here it is!
Portland at Night from Nathan Bergey on Vimeo.
Notice that I caught the Hawthorne Bridge going up for a passing ship! Totally by accident.
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excellent work
They actually raise the Hawthorne Bridge nightly so it doesn’t get stuck. No joke.
Huh, did not know that. I have seen it go up before when there were no ships. That must have been what they were doing.
I LOVE this! Would you mind if I make an animated gif from this?
Sure, that’s fine with me. Glad you like it!