timelapse

For the last few years I’ve had a go to grow various chilli and tomato plants for fun. You can’t grow these cheaper than you can buy them (or I can’t), but it’s fun and unrushable, which is a nice change from day to day tech. Last year I built a timelapse rig that took a photo of the sky every second for an entire year. I’ve not got round to writing it up yet, but I learnt a lot about how to build a reasonably resilient setup using an old laptop and a security camera....

I fell in love with timelapse films as a child. There really is something magic about watching plants growing in front of your eyes, or seeing landscapes grow and evolve right in front of you. Creating timelapse films used to be the preserve of the professionals with hugely expensive kit, but no longer. I’ve been making use of an amazing open source project called Canon Hardware Development Kit I’ve been producing timelapse films for the last couple of months....