Cutting to the beat….
More time lapse & macro fun! This time I had Liz find some small stuff around the house so I could test my new camera scripts. I wrote one that advances the zoom a specific amount so I can shoot …
Category: video experiment
NightLapse
We had a beautiful warm weekend in Portland but it’s back to being cold at night. I decided to shoot some timelapse outside my house. It was dark … with an orange sky. The shutter was open anywhere from 6 …
Portland Japanese Gardens + Scripting Language
Liz and I went up to the Japanese gardens today. It was over 80 degrees up there! Whew!!! I finished a new script in uBasic for my Canon A640. This one shoots a number of pictures, moves the focus in …
Micro Dolly or “Surfin’ with the Alligator”
I made my first attempt at a micro dolly today. I want to use it to shoot miniatures for the “Combat” video. I started with HO scale which ended up being way to small and unstable. The camera wanted to …
My first Transmission Electron Microscope
Last spring (2007) I made an electron microscope with my lab partners at PSU. Using an old article from the 1960’s, Becca, Brad, some guy (I think his name was Hank) and I constructed the contraption out of an old …