Here is another blog post with timelapse videos using the arduino hack of
US FIRST Robotics 2013 competition:
http://blog.nozell.com/2013/03/7-hours-of-engineering-pit-from-new.html

-marc

On Sat, Jul 1, 2017 at 12:53 PM, Marc Nozell (m...@nozell.com) <
m...@nozell.com> wrote:

>
> A lot depends on what kind of camera you are using.
>
> My arduino hack that Ted pointed to worked great driving a Sony Alpha DSLR
> and would likely work with similar DSLRs with some tweaking.  It would
> require cutting up a shutter release cord ($10?)  Last I looked gphoto2
> didn't support pulling images from my camera model, so you may need a way
> to manually get the images.
>
> As many have said, driving a USB webcam is pretty simple and probably your
> best bet.   If you want to spend ~$50(?) get a Raspberry Pi, the camera
> attachment w/ extra long ribbon. That works great for me. The RPi3 has
> wifi, so just provide power and some scripting to take the image and push
> it somewhere for processing.  The RPi3 is probably powerful enough to
> collect images and create periodic timelapse videos.
>
> Depending on your bandwidth, you could have the RPi just livestream
> directly to youtube.  It isn't a timelapse, but does let you keep an eye on
> something and can go back and review anything missed.  I did that for a
> couple snow storms last April.  Very simple scripting to set it all up.
>
> -marc
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 8:51 PM, Richard Kolb II <richard.k...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> > Marc Nozell wired up a camera with a mechanical release, using Arduino
>> > and then converted the resulting .JPGs into videos:
>>
>> I forgot he did that, I should look into it.
>>
>> ​
>> Richard Kolb II
>>
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