I’m a big fan of DIY projects when it comes to photography & videography. A while ago, I used the to help customize a few of these projects. Since my is out of commission right now, I’m playing catch up on posting a few things to the forum. Just thought I’d share some practical uses that the helped me in building a few photo/video rigs.
1. Camera Dolly Cart
Deck was cut from proofgrade acrylic. Remaining parts excluding the camera and tripod head, are Actobotics parts from ServoCity.
This is a 4 foot timelapse slider for use withe the eMotimo Spectrum camera robot. Only part of this that was created with the is the carriage deck using proofgrade acrylic. The rail/slider is all Actobotics parts.
This one is still a work in progress and will be much more affordable as a self-contained time lapse slider. but haven’t even touched the Arduino code for this yet. Very similar build to the previous Actobotics Slider. I also, am working on a time lapse rover using the uStepper, but that doesn’t have any cut parts, yet.
Very Cool!
Man, some of the sliding time-lapse video I have seen of the night sky was stunning! Particularly with a foreground object like a bush lightly illuminated.
One idea was to start using some of this stuff to create short and unique videos of my glowforge projects for instagram or my website. I think I do a better job just capturing the still photos.
Cool Projects and right in my wheelhouse. I want to make a time lapse rail project. I was thinking about trying combine a JJ Robots Slider project electronics with the Inventables makerslide hardware. If I can make it work it should be a nice robust system.
I haven’t seen that one before, but like that you can 3D print most of it. The Makerslide looks nice too, as it looks like you can get the rail in different lengths.
to help customize a few of these projects. Since my 
