Custom timelapse rig for filming plants and mushrooms growing

[@JohnAldred]

Do you guys want me to go into more detail on the electronics & coding side of this?

[@cyclemonkey]

Yassss!

[@hampusnordenson4112]

Yes please!

[@elrastita]

Hey incredible project. Kudos! would be awesone if you can share the code and diagrams... :) I'm planning to develop something similar to use with mushrooms..

[@iamionscat9035]

I would absolutely love to see how you assembled this. I had my student send you a message on Facebook with a proposal for a collaboration. Could you please check your FB messages and let's see if if it makes sense to work together. Thank you for your consideration. Have a great weekend!

[@jjlovesjam]

Yes please mate!

[@udijw]

Oh John, you always have the craziest setups.

[@JohnAldred]

And it's not even finished yet! 😂

[@apiedatokyo]

This is brilliant. Would love a PCB of this to try building my own. Or you could probably sell these 😊!

[@JohnAldred]

Taken a while, but I finally have this on a PCB now. I just posted a new video about it. I have a couple of bugs I need to fix and the code definitely needs some work, but it'll be going on GitHub soon. :)

[@cyclemonkey]

Great video and information, well done brother!

[@JohnAldred]

Hey, thanks, Jesse! I thought this might pique your interest :)

[@cyclemonkey]

@@JohnAldredpositively! I'm not sure I'll go as deep as you but I think a cool mushroom or flower lapse would be nice to add to the reel (=

[@jjlovesjam]

This is so awesome and informative, thank you!

[@JohnAldred]

Thank you! I'm working on a new series at the moment to explain the individual components a bit more in-depth so that people can pick and choose which bits they might want to implement in their own intervalometer designs and how they can expand it to do other stuff.

[@jjlovesjam]

@@JohnAldred niiice, thanks man! You got many example Timelapse’s? I’d love to use this for fungi if I had some studio space

[@TheRealRichardWong]

Very cool project John!

[@JohnAldred]

Thanks, Richard. It's turning out to be a lot of fun to work on! :)

[@sezzivideo]

Taking geekery to an entirely new Level... A+

[@JohnAldred]

And there's still so much more I want to do with this setup! 😂

[@ruibandeirafotografia]

Uau, thats awsome... Im afraid to see what you would do, to the sun if you decide to make nature photography 😁😁😁😁

[@JohnAldred]

Actually, I'm kinda working on shootin' some wildlife with flash when spring comes around again. ;)

[@JohnAldred]

And you should see what I have in store for the local badgers! (coming soon, lol)

[@oneeyedphotographer]

Dad used to run electric fences off old car batteries. Just choose a big enough battery. A cheap UPS perhaps. Yongnuo has pretty cheap speedlights that can be powered externally.

[@JohnAldred]

Yup, I've got a few of the Godox TT600s, and PB960 packs, but they're still not going to last for several weeks at a time. Plus, I've got access to plug sockets and I kinda already bought the AC powered strobe now, haha.

[@oneeyedphotographer]

@@JohnAldred Solar! Used panel from eBay, Gumtree etc, keeping a used AGM battery going.

[@RobJorg]

i heard a long time ago that there is a controller that alternates between two ligth sources being video or grow ligth and triggers the camera when the video ligth is on. however back then i didnt need it now i cant find it. got tips ?

[@JohnAldred]

Well that's what this does, essentially. It turns off the grow lights when it needs to shoot the photo and then fires the flash when the camera goes off. I've just posted an update to this video, transferring it from the breadboard to an actual PCB.

[@Ericpare]

so cool!! :::)

[@JohnAldred]

Thanks, Eric! Now I just need seventeen thousand more cameras to connect to it, and I can make a setup like yours, haha 😂

[@TimeLapseLaboratory]

Is there a write up/ code posted somewhere for this project? I am interested in building a similar system.

[@JohnAldred]

Hey, delayed response, but yes, it's coming soon. I've switched this over from a breadboard to a PCB now and posted a new video. Once I've ironed out a couple of bugs in the schematic and gotten some of the code working a bit better, I'll be posting it all to GitHub :)

[@TimeLapseLaboratory]

@@JohnAldred Great thank you for the reply I am still interested in building the system for some projects in the future.

[@JustinRjsrphotos]

Pffft. Should've just done it all on an Iphone 3gs. Kidding :)

[@JohnAldred]

You know, I wish my iPhone 3GS hadn't died (battery swelled up to 3x is regular size and basically tore the phone in half as it did so, lol). The camera in that thing was so terrible, but I loved it. I'd love to see what I could do with it today, haha.

[@iamionscat9035]

Hi John, This is an outstanding rig you have created. It's awesome and I love it. I asked my grad student to reach out to you on FB to see if you were interested in a collaboration on my plant research project. Could you please check your meaasges on FB, I truly think it would benefit both of us and would like to talk to you about it and see what you think. I need some technical advice. Sincerely, Thank you very much for your consideration. This is really amazing work you have done here.

[@JohnAldred]

Hi Ion's cat and thank you! I don't see a message on Facebook, but I did receive an email from somebody called Alejandro this morning about this project. Is that your student? If not, my email address is on my "About" page here on KZbin. It's probably the easiest way to get hold of me. :)

[@iamionscat9035]

@@JohnAldred Hi, Thanks for getting back to me! No my student is Tyler. I don't see your email anywhere in the KZbin app. I'll try the computer and see if if I can find it there. I'll reply to this if I can't find it. Thanks again!

[@alebenages745]

@@JohnAldred hey! I sent you that email! I'm that Alejandro, but I'm not that student! :) would be wonderful if you can contact both of us @Ion's Cat and I. I'm sure we have things in common, and would find a way to create synergy, cooperate and help each other.

[@alebenages745]

@@iamionscat9035 I'm also trying to develop a similar project. feel free to contact me, you would find my email address on my "about" page at my KZbin channel...