Work has been getting in the way of hacking for the last week or so and I’ve still not had chance to get out with the camera. Hopefully this weekend. The main programming challenge for the intervalometer was getting a simple menu working with just 2 buttons and a 16×2 character LCD. I’ve already said that with hindsight I’d go for a 3-button interface, so I’m not going to go into great detail about how this works. The next problem came when I had built the circuit into a box...

Just a quick post. The weather has continued to be miserable, so I’ve not had chance to use the intervalometer. So onto the source code: /* Nikon D5000 Controller  */ // include the library code: #include <LiquidCrystal.h> // initialize the library with the numbers of the interface pins LiquidCrystal lcd(12, 11, 5, 4, 3, 2); int IRledPin = 9;                // assign the Infrared emitter/ diode // to pin 13 int exposureInterval = 2000;       // default exposure interval int exposureLength = 10000;       // default exposure length int Btn1...

Today I’d hoped to go out and create a time lapse video with my intervalometer, but this being Scotland it’s raining and the sky is a uniform grey. So a good opportunity to go over the intervalometer design. The circuit is very simple, most of the details can be cobbled together using the examples on the Arduino website. So this morning I’ve been playing with an Open Source drafting tool to draw a circuit diagram. Fritzing is provided by the Interaction Design Lab of the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam....

Recently while trying to find bits of the Internet that I’d missed I found Arduino. A simple to program micro-controller with some great community contributions. It’s open source hardware. I soon got an idea for a project and set to. I’d make an intervalometer for my Nikon D5000 DSLR camera. The D5000 in common with a few Nikon DSLRs has an infra-red remote control to fire the shutter. I’d build an infrared remote control and a timer to fire it at preset intervals so I could do time lapse photography....