- Sun May 13, 2012 7:26 am
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Ok not sure if this is a good place to post here or if there is a better site but, here is a little project I've been working on and off for over a year.
I'm trying to build a wearable time lapse camera built around a 808 "keychain spy camera" like this.
I first started to use a 555 and a reed relay to control it but since then I have caught the Arduino bug and it works much better because since the camera shuts down after 50 seconds or so I can also switch it back on before I take the shot.
So here is my plan I got some attiny85s here since I only need a few outputs and I love the small size. That goes on small PCB that only needs a few resistors and transistors, two each and maybe an external crystal if I can figure out "fuses" :think: . The whole thing, camera and circuit, is powered by a recycled cellphone 1000 mah camera LiPo.
Here is my dilemma. I want to wear this thing and make movies of like an entire day at Walt Disney World in like 3 minutes. My thought is to make two halves to this project, one is the circuit and battery and one the camera. I have already soldered in some thin wires to the camera at the switch and power locations and plan on using some sort of 4 conductor plug between the two. Making it two parts means I can use the circuit for more than one camera. The issue is I need some sort of unobtrusive case for the camera.
Here is the guts of the camera.
The lens points out the top of the fob so it would be weird to have something pointing out of my body. The lens is on a thin ribbon cable so it could be parallel to the body but now it sticks out the top, it will also be shooting upside down but I can fix that in editing.
So does anybody have any good ideas on how I could pull this off. In a perfect world I would un-solder the ribbon cable and have that on a wire(kipkay did it for his snealy snake spy cam) to make it less conspicuous. I could just get the Flyone camera here but I've already spend too much on this as it is.
I'm trying to build a wearable time lapse camera built around a 808 "keychain spy camera" like this.
I first started to use a 555 and a reed relay to control it but since then I have caught the Arduino bug and it works much better because since the camera shuts down after 50 seconds or so I can also switch it back on before I take the shot.
So here is my plan I got some attiny85s here since I only need a few outputs and I love the small size. That goes on small PCB that only needs a few resistors and transistors, two each and maybe an external crystal if I can figure out "fuses" :think: . The whole thing, camera and circuit, is powered by a recycled cellphone 1000 mah camera LiPo.
Here is my dilemma. I want to wear this thing and make movies of like an entire day at Walt Disney World in like 3 minutes. My thought is to make two halves to this project, one is the circuit and battery and one the camera. I have already soldered in some thin wires to the camera at the switch and power locations and plan on using some sort of 4 conductor plug between the two. Making it two parts means I can use the circuit for more than one camera. The issue is I need some sort of unobtrusive case for the camera.
Here is the guts of the camera.
The lens points out the top of the fob so it would be weird to have something pointing out of my body. The lens is on a thin ribbon cable so it could be parallel to the body but now it sticks out the top, it will also be shooting upside down but I can fix that in editing.
So does anybody have any good ideas on how I could pull this off. In a perfect world I would un-solder the ribbon cable and have that on a wire(kipkay did it for his snealy snake spy cam) to make it less conspicuous. I could just get the Flyone camera here but I've already spend too much on this as it is.
