Thing 5700 – Vica Illusion Sculpture (Time Lapse)
In the BotCave we have been loving us some time lapse video in recent months. (Automated Build Platform, Cathedral, and Water Soluble PVA, just to pick three I have put together.) These tiny videos not only allow us to make cool videos with still cameras, but also are really a great way to compress the process of printing an object right down to the best part: the Wow part.
Back when we made the three videos I listed earlier, I used a Canon 7D in combination with Dragon Stop Motion. (Oh, and a modest amount of post-shoot tweaking.) But lately we have a cluster of second-hand Canon PowerShot Sd1000s loaded up with CHDK so that we can experiment with scripts such as Sunset4.1 (And we are looking to tweak the script to defeat the autofocus and make things happier for printing this kind of work.)
Well, there are so many great time lapse videos being put together by MakerBot Operators2 using all sorts of cameras to make these: webcams, HDV cameras, and iPhone 4s. So we gotta ask! What are you using to grab video of your prints?
- That is what I used for the above video. [↩]
- Ah, that Betaworks time lapse video! Really raises the bar for all of us! [↩]
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6 Comments so far
Rob
I’m using quite a mixture, I recorded my very first few using a Kodak Zi8 which is a pocket HD camcorder like the flips and produces great video. I also recorded some on my iPhone 4 which also produces great video as long as you upload it on a computer and not from the phone. I have switched to use my Panasonic TZ10 though now as it’s got a great lens and it also takes good stills. You can see some of my Thing-O-Matic (including some Unicorn prints) on my YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/havocgeneral
I am currently building on the work of Schmarty who managed to use CHDK to make a timelapse of a print by positioning the print in the same location each layer and snapping a picture. This requires modifications to the makerbot firmware and replicatorG which I’ve done, I’ll have some videos and stuff on Thingiverse over the next few days, it should be really cool.
Schmarty
Sweet! I’m glad somebody’s making use of that stuff!!
zgbot
schmarty has the holy grail timelapse
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQns9DtSesE&feature=player_embedded
been trying to stabilize the one i shot for 2 days with little luck. I think shooting tons of stills then just editing out the ones that are really far off center, play that back then tighten the edit if needed, run that back, repeat.
coasterman
How do you get that to print raftless so well? Do you slow the first layer down? Is it squished down to the platform?
relet
Wow, It’s fun to see that you settled on the same painless raftless init process I did: enable outline and disable wipe.
That said: why isn’t the outline plugin available by default in the latest version of repg anymore?
Matt
@Rob and @Schmarty — I really want to learn more about the stabilizing stuff you folks are talking about! I did manual stabilizing/tracking in the Cathedral kit and was quite aware that there is a better way to do this. Keep me updated with your results — I’ll post them here! (And brag about how you folks did it!)