AlanH87

this was my initial design and tbh i found it did not have the required power to move my dslr up an incline this stepper is rated for 5v only and as such does not have a lot of torque having said that if you are using a small camera then this would be fine and very easy to build. take a look at my other instructables to see how this project progressed to a 12v nema 17 stepper motor with enough torque to lift to dslr's at the same time. im also working on a pan / tilt module to give a 3 axis time lapse rail.

latest firmware is on the last page of this projectmany thanks for your interest, let me know if you need any assistanceAlan

this is awesome work Tzeleru it was fun helping you on the way to your finished product i like the shots counter add on as well

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i can help with the programming. what stepper motor are you intending to use? i would recommend a Nema 17 stepper. if you let me know what stepper you are using i may be able to modify my code from this or my other project to work for you.

sure you can do this project without IR you would need 5 button inputs to setup interval and distance of travel between each shot. are you intending to use the same stepper motor as per my instrucatable above? did you have a look at my new time lapse projects which are easier to implement? but sure im happy to help you with your project let me know a few more details about the hardware you intend to use. you can buy the IR receiver and remote control from the link in my list of materials above for very little.

the IR sensor is used with the remote control as a user interface to set step size and interval i chose this as an interface as it allowed much flexibility with very little wiring. you may want to take a look at my other projects because i have developed this idea further

the IR receiver has 3 connections vcc (5v), gnd, and data. in my example i used pin 6 on the arduino pro mini for the IR data pin connection.

Thank you Droxz, i intend to try :D

so i created a Firmware update im about to post to this instructable this will change the display output to indicate mm step distance instead of an arbitrary number, and some specs: the rail is 1100mm long it has 880mm of free travel and can lift 1.3kg vertically. it has an adjustable step increment of 0.5mm to 10mm in 0.5mm increments and a intervalometer capable of 1 second to 30 seconds in 250ms increments (i could allow a longer interval with a quick change if required)

Thank you, I really appreciate you taking the time to look and comment.

Thank you Alex

thanks for the heads up i think ill give that a go

thank you tomatoskins

further examples of my time lapse videos created with this device can be found on my youtube channel here.https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0PNkO5dvbCi3uXtkR_f3kw