Linux for time lapse and wifi?

[Richard Kolb]

Thanks everyone, I'll see what works for me.

Richard Kolb
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From: nozell at gmail.com <nozell at gmail.com> on behalf of Marc Nozell (marc at nozell.com) <marc at nozell.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 1, 2017 12:57:06 PM
To: Richard Kolb II
Cc: Ted Roche; GNHLUG
Subject: Re: Linux for time lapse and wifi?

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 (marc at nozell.com<mailto:marc at nozell.com>) <marc at nozell.com<mailto:marc at 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.kolb at gmail.com<mailto:richard.kolb at 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.

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Richard Kolb II


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