homebuilt motion control camera

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filmfan222

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hey guys,
heres a homebuilt motion control rig ive been working on for a few months now.

they track is an aluminum ladder, and the rest is built from aluminum tubing.

it does, pan, tilt and dolly.

the software and drivers are borrowed from General-Lift in Los Angeles.

will be using it for a kind of neat web project coming up that Ill spread links around when we get the site up.

http://www.tarded.com/bodylapse/cameramoving.mov
 
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Thats awsome. Back in the day I used to be a robot welder. The job consisted of not only welding, but programing the robot. I've been thinking of getting my hands on that software to do the same kind of thing. The software can control up to 30 motors at once, and then when everything is set the over all speed can be adjusted as well. The robots were ABB.

Here is the model robots I used to program
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7jNOYjCDTY
 
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ok, gonna need a build list, and a step by step walk through on how to build it, ihoppoet@gmail.com

God bless you in advance. Ive been doing motion control with a track dolly and a stop watch in the green screen studeo, its worked ok, but this can add to, and make my life so much easier

Jason
 
ya i built all the cart, track, mounts myself.

the drives are all standard 30-40 dollar stepper motors.

the real kicker though is the software/driver board.

i messed around for almost 3 months ( i have no programming background what so ever, but do know how to build things) trying to figure out how to get what i built....to move.


if i can find someone interested, who knows a thing or two about low level programming, we could probably get a kit together.

any takers?
 
Dude... you just became my hero.

Could we see some footage from the cam that's being controlled? I'd like to see how smooth the action is...

I'm a moderately serious DIY kind of guy and my hat is off to you. I've wanted to try something like this for a long time... I've bought several motors and played with it off and on, but I never got my shots smooth enough for anything beyond "security cam" type of shots. I finally gave up on it and sold my kit on ebay, but now I'm thinking I may give it another go. That appears to be pretty smooth.
 
no forget about the kit, just get us a parts list, and some instructions. and maybe put the programing ou have online, perhaps we can improve on it, and make it freeware?
 
That is crucial, but you know what would make it baller....

Control the robot from your IPhone or Bluetooth enabled Phone.

IN THE YEAR 2000!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
The Year 2000 Doody?

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Awsome looking rig Filmfan! Why is the camera mounted sideways? No L-bracket yet?

- Mikko
 
Sweeeeeeet!

Can you mount it upside down on a ceiling?

I'd be exteremly greatful for a parts list / DIY instructions!
 
you need to play that in reverse and add the furniture names prices, and cataloge discription.

also add a yen yang coffie table
 
Interesting project!

You've got some slippage on the clean plate pass and a decent amount of bounce
in the camera. It would probably benefit from a post stabilization pass and probably
some repositioning and or slight warping on the areas of the clean plate you're pulling.

Really ambitious though! I'm impressed and I work with moco all the time :)
 
If you could also get 'feathering' capability in your moves as well as trigger activation for DSLR and programmed steps between shutter releases (complete stop during open shutter) for timelapse - I'll take a kit.
 
filmfan222 said:
hey guys,
heres a homebuilt motion control rig ive been working on for a few months now.

they track is an aluminum ladder, and the rest is built from aluminum tubing.

it does, pan, tilt and dolly.

the software and drivers are borrowed from General-Lift in Los Angeles.

will be using it for a kind of neat web project coming up that Ill spread links around when we get the site up.

http://www.tarded.com/bodylapse/cameramoving.mov
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That's great, it looks nice .
 
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