Hi Klaus,
I am glad you are in! We can do some nice things sharing here our projects.
Luckily if you have coding experience I think you can give some help with the project I made because at this point I have everything gathered/wired but I need some help combining the LRTimelapse code with so many open source codes for Arduino stepper motion control.
I have LRTimelapse intervalometer and used it with QDslrDashboard and for me it's the perfect combination (thanks agains Gunther!) but I miss the motion control. Therefore in this past week I gathered a project using Arduino pin D12 for trigger, D11 for step and D13 for direction and wired these components according to the attached schematic.
-Same Arduino Uno as the Intervalometer,
- the same shield I used for the intervalometer (
https://www.itead.cc/wiki/Arduino_1602_LCD_Shield)
-Ratrig Slider (ratrig.com)
-A4988 stepper driver with voltage regulator (
https://www.pololu.com/product/1183/pictures)
-NEMA 17 stepper driver for carriage slider motion control (latter will come pan and perhaps tilt with smaller steppers).
-Provisional 8V battery (8x1,2V rechargeable AA battery's) for powering all the "system".
Today I made a small wiring test of the system and debug of the code.
I used an open source sketch (
https://github.com/RobTC/SliderCam) edited just to change the trigger pin for the same as LRT (pin 12) but the Intervalometer features of this sketch are a "Milky Way" distance from what LRT intervalometer can do.
So at this stage I think the next step will be combining this or any other code for motion control (using LCD 1602 shield) with the LRTimelapse intervalometer code.
It will be very helpful if you Klaus (or anybody else) can give some help on this project! Maybe we can do some affordable and nice motion control and learn something at the end of the day.
Thanks in advance for any help!
Best regards and a nice day for all the timelapsers
PedroF