BS2 based cam controller
Peter KG6LSE
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I made a controller for a cheap cam to use for Time-laps ..
I made one years ago but I lost the code for it so I made a new one .
Here is youtube Video on how its made www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4T7LgojVnA
I used a BS2 Homework Board and a set of reed relays to activate the power and shutter buttons.
I could have ran them right off the stamp but I did not want to mess with source sink issues and I did not want to risk blowing the stamp with a back-feed as it is my schools ..
And being in a area where there are no real electronics stores I had to use what was at hand ...
Here is the first test run in the robotics lab at school.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGacmluNYD0
The Code is very fat and eats space . I need to improve it with some " for 1= yada " statements
but I had to make it in a day
I Might All a EyeFi card to the SD slot on the cam so I can post the photos right to a FTP server ..
But this was never in the plans until now .
Peter KG6LSE
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"Carpe Ducktum" "seize the tape!!"
peterthethinker.com/tesla/Venom/Venom.html
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway. —Tanenbaum, Andrew S.
LOL
Post Edited (Peter KG6LSE) : 2/14/2010 4:36:00 PM GMT
I made one years ago but I lost the code for it so I made a new one .
Here is youtube Video on how its made www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4T7LgojVnA
I used a BS2 Homework Board and a set of reed relays to activate the power and shutter buttons.
I could have ran them right off the stamp but I did not want to mess with source sink issues and I did not want to risk blowing the stamp with a back-feed as it is my schools ..
And being in a area where there are no real electronics stores I had to use what was at hand ...
Here is the first test run in the robotics lab at school.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGacmluNYD0
The Code is very fat and eats space . I need to improve it with some " for 1= yada " statements
but I had to make it in a day
I Might All a EyeFi card to the SD slot on the cam so I can post the photos right to a FTP server ..
But this was never in the plans until now .
Peter KG6LSE
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"Carpe Ducktum" "seize the tape!!"
peterthethinker.com/tesla/Venom/Venom.html
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway. —Tanenbaum, Andrew S.
LOL
Post Edited (Peter KG6LSE) : 2/14/2010 4:36:00 PM GMT
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well, judging from your excellent Tesla coil work, you'll feel right at home here with a bunch of other Mad Scientists [noparse]:)[/noparse])
Did the FCC or guys in black vehicles ever pull up while you were firing up "Pig" ?
- Howard
(who never met a spark gap he didn't like)
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Its starting to snow here In Iowa so i am deploying it today at 12 noon and Its set for 1 Photo a day ...
Lets just hope the NiMh batts hold for a week until I can put a solar panel on it . (the Math looks ok on this end).
Here goes a full month long test..
Peter
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"Carpe Ducktum" "seize the tape!!"
peterthethinker.com/tesla/Venom/Venom.html
have a look at
groups.google.com/group/iowarobotics?hl=en
-dan
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Arguing with myself--sometimes me, myself, and I don't always agree.
(Former) Caterpillar product support technician
I will look in to it ASAP
LOL I am In Deep with all kinds of robotics and electronics teams .
In 07 I won 3rd place at Skills USA nationals for electronics ..
In 09 My Team from My Old College (MtSAC) won the excellence award . The highest award offered.
I was in charge (pun) of Power and also designed Beta Our second Bot ..
"Batt Boy" LOL ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=62MrS-SVyoo
Beta farm3.static.flickr.com/2689/4142467960_5d164d861a_b.jpg
R2V2 www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIZ2Y6r6yx8
This Year I am going back to Skills for robotics and I am a Judge for FLL in Iowa .
Peter KG6LSE
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"Carpe Ducktum" "seize the tape!!"
peterthethinker.com/tesla/Venom/Venom.html
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway. —Tanenbaum, Andrew S.
LOL
-dan
www.cialug.org/
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Arguing with myself--sometimes me, myself, and I don't always agree.
(Former) Caterpillar product support technician
I've been jonesing this thing for the past hour or so.
How hard was it to hack the power and picture buttons on the Vivitar thingy?
it was simple and cheap . and the cam quality is Quite good for a sub $100 digi cam .
one mistake, I should have removed the piezo element so its silent ...
so it still makes noises when it turns on ..
a random beeping from a ugly box does not help its bomb looking persona much ..
Peter KG6LSE
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"Carpe Ducktum" "seize the tape!!"
peterthethinker.com/tesla/Venom/Venom.html
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway. —Tanenbaum, Andrew S.
LOL
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Watching the world pass me by, one photon at a time.
Here is a clip did yesterday in HD . the cam is 5MP so its WAY beyond HD1080 .
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Uha1SRg81Y
Peter KG6LSE
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"Carpe Ducktum" "seize the tape!!"
peterthethinker.com/tesla/Venom/Venom.html
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway. —Tanenbaum, Andrew S.
LOL
I am also going to dump the relays and use 2 opto isolators or a direct Pull up or Pull down Right off the BS2
It HAS to be sorce or sink some how ..
At UPEW I hope to get a new BS2 I can dedicate to this thing and really call it done as right now I have on loan one of my college's Home work boards in it.
Peter...
New code for UPEW
Peter