DIY Portable Camera Slider for Time-lapse Photography

An overview of a portable camera slider I made. Hope it's helpful!
Links to some of the products I used to make the slider:
- Sony NP-F battery mount: www.amazon.com...
- .96 in. OLED module: www.amazon.com...
- 5 button module: www.ebay.com/i...
- Stepper controller: www.pololu.com...
- 3/8 in. screw mount: www.amazon.com...
- NEMA 11 5:1 planetary gearbox stepper motor: www.omc-steppe...
- NEMA 11 14:1 planetary gearbox stepper motor: www.omc-steppe...

[@Oceanopticon]

Thank you for sharing! Love that you provide the 'why' behind your design decisions - super helpful.

[@NothingOfficial668]

Great build. what sets yours apart is the cool coding. Love the acceleration/deceleration. Keep at it! I do astrophotography and see similar requirements to this. You'd be surprised how crazy stiff and still a rig needs to be to take good stacks of images. The bouncy pvc rails are doing you no favors. You can grab aluminum pipe, possibly of the same OD at the hardware store. Could do carbon fiber but that seems like overkill. Try lengthening the pause time between the move and the camera trigger to let the wiggles stop. If the motor pulled the carriage against a spring or elastic band, you wouldn't need an incline. i bet you can get a better time lapse with the images you've already taken with better software. something that aligns them better.

[@ariveahmmed]

Great video. You deserve more views and subscriber. Keep up the good work brother.

[@MarinusMakesStuff]

I switched to the ESP8266 boards from Aliexpress. These cost around 2 dollars per piece with USB-C and have a lot more memory than Arduino's.

[@AlexLMedia]

I've waited years for this 🥹