Mighty CNC machine- AWAKEN!
(fanfare-like music & machine noises)
(music: "Nevermore")
Hey, fellow creators! Welcome to Joel Creates
Today we're going to be messing around with a random idea that I got
which is to use my CNC machine as a fancy slide for time lapses
First thing I want to try and do though is improve the audio quality just on my phone
as cheaply as possible so I glued some foam
to this piece of cardboard and I'm going to just tuck it right behind the phone
that we get a little bit of directionality and a little blockage of
everything else but the direction I'm speaking from. We'll see if that helps
The way that a time-lapse works: a camera is set to take a picture at a given
interval or amount of time The length of this interval between each shot depends
entirely upon the subject matter that you're trying to take a time lapse of
For instance if you wanted to take a time lapse of an engraving on my CNC
machine that's relatively small you'd probably be taking a picture every few
seconds because it doesn't take that long maybe, an hour max, for whatever I'm
engraving. If you wanted to take a time lapse of a
full rotation of the earth, your camera pointed into the sky so you can see the
stars whizzing overhead at high speed; in this case you probably take a picture
every few minutes.
If you wanted to have a time lapse of a plant growing over a week
you might take a picture every hour or two or...
Thankfully the iPhone seems to automatically set the interval
based on how long you're recording. I set my camera right here
First time lapse I did was just of me cleaning up my shop a bit
with it just running along the x-axis and this looked surprisingly very cool
I wanted to mess around with more than just one axis
If we could tilt the camera to follow a specific subject that can be
pretty cool. So hey, let's see- let's see what we can rig up
At this point I've taken a spring-loaded clamp and I've clamped it on to the z-axis where the
junction is so now when I turn the z-axis very slowly
I can not only track the camera but I can also pan it
Here's the iPhone clamped onto the z-axis
It's got a little battery pack because it's battery is terrible
but we're gonna go ahead and run it and see how it does
(music: "Nevermore")
That footage looked pretty amazing, didn't it?
Funny thing is, I was just wiping down my desk
and attaching a couple wires to a power supply- checking the voltage
I think I may have just turned my CNC machine into the biggest time-lapse
slider there is... maybe not. I'm sure someone's done bigger but especially for
such a small space, it's super overkill. I'm definitely going to be using some of
these shots going forward and I think that you guys will definitely appreciate it
I can't wait to have a really big complex build and be able to track it
with the CNC machine in the background doing a time lapse as I'm putting it
together over a series of hours. I hope you'll stick around to see that
Consider subscribing, hope you enjoy the music, I'll see you next time