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Hi, Planning ahead for my next project. A Time lapse dolly.

I was searching around on the interwebs lastnight looking for ideas on how I want the dolly to function.

 

I've pretty much settled on a stepper motor to move the dolly along the rig. And it will be controlled by an Arduino Uno or Atmega2560 (still not sure about that yet).

The control will have 3 rotary encoders (maybe 4) to set:

 

1.Time between stops

2, exposure time/shutter speed on the camera

3. aperature

4. focus

 

Basically everything you can do with an intervalometer + control the dolly motor.

 

But in my Journey through the interwebs I came across a sample of code the started with include "nikon.h"

So I started searching for a nikon library and all I can come up with is a library for nikon specific to the IR reciever on the camera. There was also a few that I found as "multicamera IR control"

I plan on buying a cheap $15 intervalometer off ebay to cut the wire connector off it. I want it to be hard wired to the camera.

 

Will I still need a nikon library to build the sketch? or should I be ok as long as I can figure out the pin configuration of the connector?

 

Thanks

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  • I've only learned about Arduino a few days ago so I am completely clueless about it After finding out about it I started to run ideas through my head and a TL dolly was a natural first thought for me, hence how I got here.

     

    One thought that occured to me was if it's possible to incorporate an Android app into a design, I thought it would be way cool to be able to set all the paremeters (perferably wirelessly) using an Android device.

     

    You must check out DSLR Dashboard https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dslr.dashboard&hl=en if you haven't already. The programmer seems to be approachable and must have some advanced knoweledge of the Nikon Library. It might be worth your time seeing if he can point you in the right direction, never know he might even be willing to collaborate on a project while adding motion control options to his app. On the Google Play page (at the link above) watch the video and look at the screen captures. He has it interfaced with an Arduino board firing multiple cameras simutaneously. The app has built in timelapse functions and even has provisions to control focus and uses it to automate focus stacking captures. I wouldn't doubt it if he has already considered adding motion control provisions since he has obviously given a lot of thought to this already. Oh yeah, he has also added WiFi support recently using the Nikon WU-1a, unfortunately it's only compatible with the newer camera's though which counts me out at the moment also.

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  • I've only learned about Arduino a few days ago so I am completely clueless about it After finding out about it I started to run ideas through my head and a TL dolly was a natural first thought for me, hence how I got here.

     

    One thought that occured to me was if it's possible to incorporate an Android app into a design, I thought it would be way cool to be able to set all the paremeters (perferably wirelessly) using an Android device.

     

    You must check out DSLR Dashboard https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dslr.dashboard&hl=en if you haven't already. The programmer seems to be approachable and must have some advanced knoweledge of the Nikon Library. It might be worth your time seeing if he can point you in the right direction, never know he might even be willing to collaborate on a project while adding motion control options to his app. On the Google Play page (at the link above) watch the video and look at the screen captures. He has it interfaced with an Arduino board firing multiple cameras simutaneously. The app has built in timelapse functions and even has provisions to control focus and uses it to automate focus stacking captures. I wouldn't doubt it if he has already considered adding motion control provisions since he has obviously given a lot of thought to this already. Oh yeah, he has also added WiFi support recently using the Nikon WU-1a, unfortunately it's only compatible with the newer camera's though which counts me out at the moment also.

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