{"id":12901,"date":"2016-12-18T23:02:54","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T04:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/?p=12901"},"modified":"2016-12-18T23:03:10","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T04:03:10","slug":"motion-control-camera-robot-creating-moving-time-lapses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/motion-control-camera-robot-creating-moving-time-lapses\/","title":{"rendered":"Motion control camera robot for creating moving time-lapses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Motion-controlled autonomous camera robots are great for capturing moving time-lapse. <em>Sacheth<\/em>, <em>Ope<\/em>, and <em>Jason<\/em> (three ECE students at Cornell) built\u00a0an iPhone controlled\u00a0moving robot with a mounted camera to serve\u00a0the same purpose. The position of the camera can be controlled\u00a0as well through the iPhone App. Users can also pre-program it\u00a0with certain motions with time intervals to capture\u00a0a moving time-lapse of a landscape.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12903\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/SideView.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12903\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12903\" src=\"http:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/SideView.jpg\" alt=\"Dolly: Motion control camera robot\" width=\"800\" height=\"703\" srcset=\"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/SideView.jpg 800w, https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/SideView-580x510.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12903\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dolly: Motion control camera robot<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The brain of their camera robot\u00a0is the PIC32MX250F128B microcontroller that receives commands from the iPhone App over Bluetooth. Two DC motors are used to drive the camera robot, while a unipolar stepper motor controls the camera rotation. See the demo video below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cQSC5qMVmcI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/people.ece.cornell.edu\/land\/courses\/ece4760\/FinalProjects\/f2016\/ssh88_jcz28_ooo25\/ssh88_jcz28_ooo25\/ssh88_jcz28_ooo25\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Check out more details!<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Motion-controlled autonomous camera robots are great for capturing moving time-lapse. Sacheth, Ope, and Jason (three ECE students at Cornell) built\u00a0an iPhone controlled\u00a0moving robot with a mounted camera to serve\u00a0the same purpose. The position of the camera can be controlled\u00a0as well through the iPhone App. Users can also pre-program it\u00a0with certain motions with time intervals to capture\u00a0a moving time-lapse of a landscape. The brain of their camera robot\u00a0is the PIC32MX250F128B microcontroller that receives commands from the iPhone App over Bluetooth. Two DC motors are used to drive the camera robot, while a unipolar stepper motor controls the camera rotation. See the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1344],"tags":[1595,1186],"class_list":["post-12901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pic32","tag-moving-time-lapse","tag-pic32-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12901"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12906,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12901\/revisions\/12906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}