How To Build An Automated Weatherproof Timelapse DSLR Machine Using Raspberry Pi
Apr 12, 2015
Udi Tirosh
Udi Tirosh is an entrepreneur, photography inventor, journalist, educator, and writer based in Israel. With over 25 years of experience in the photo-video industry, Udi has built and sold several photography-related brands. Udi has a double degree in mass media communications and computer science.
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Madis Projects were booked for a challenging time lapse project. They needed to take a time lapse of a construction site for a long duration and their previous project using a gopro was not satisfactory.
They also needed a 15 minutes interval, endless photo storage, remote management and web uploads.
What did they do? They built a lean mean weather proof DSLR time lapse machine using Raspberry Pi.
The basic building blocks were an old D40, a Raspberry Pi board, a rugged explorer case, an Eye-fi card and an old router.
The scheme is pretty basic too: use the Raspberry Pi to control the camera, connect the eye-fi card to the router, connect router to the world using 3G, upload the files to remote location.
The hardware is sitting pretty tight in the case, and a bit of dremelling, glue and a Hoya filter made a clear, drop proof outlet for the lens.
Sounds simple, right? I have to say that the tutorial that Madis supplies can get you through lots of the software and integration hurdles so maybe it is.
[A timelapse project with DSLR, Raspberry Pi, Eye-Fi and gphoto2 via hackaday]
Udi Tirosh
Udi Tirosh is an entrepreneur, photography inventor, journalist, educator, and writer based in Israel. With over 25 years of experience in the photo-video industry, Udi has built and sold several photography-related brands. Udi has a double degree in mass media communications and computer science.
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5 responses to “How To Build An Automated Weatherproof Timelapse DSLR Machine Using Raspberry Pi”
PTP protocol is so unconsistent over long periods and large file sizes :)
i was thinking the eyefi card would be a pain, or the main pain :)
I tried the eye-fi solution, too many caveats.
Done! All onto SD for this one. But have working android solution, that’s perpetual if you’ve enough bandwidth for your shooting rate :)
http://biscuitrodeo.com/timelapse/dublin-port-18-days/
Neat project, i would love to do one too. But, imho, it seems like a single android phone with the camera on a tether could have done all of that with much less gear and electricity (for remote locations).