Time Lapse With A Gopro

tom.caine

USA

Asked Mar 2015 — Edited Mar 2015

Here's a video which shows how you can use a GoPro for time lapse photography with Roli. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IreUCKTxbbg

Question - which control is being used? I'd like to know where to enter the script to allow Roli to move. I assumed it was either the camera control or the Auto Position Movement Panel. I entered the script in each control but Roli isn't responding.

Here is the script from the video:

Any suggestions?

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thetechguru

PRO

USA

#1 Mar 2015

That script drives any movement panel. So, just add the script to your Roli project as either an EZ-Script object, or as a script in a script manager object (or to any project with a movement panel), and start it, and the robot will start to move, stop, move, stop etc....

Alan

tom.caine

USA

#2 Mar 2015

Uh...OK. I'm not totally clear on this. I got it to work but not sure how. I entered the script into the Auto Position Movement Panel .... Settings > Positioner Start Script >

:repeat
forward(100,1000)
sleep(4000)
goto(repeat)

I connected Roli. Nothing happened. I then clicked on the Hand Dance action - for no logical reason - and then he script ran - perfectly.

Is there a better way of doing this?

BTW - this is a really cool. I printed the GoPro mount on my MakerBot and set the camera up for time lapse. It's awesome!

Thanks!

Tom

thetechguru

PRO

USA

#3 Mar 2015

Auto position is not the right place for this script. It kicked off when you executed an Auto Position (hand dance) but that is not really right.

Just add an EZ-Script object to your project, and enter the script in that. When you click start on the object the script will run until you press stop.

Alan

bhouston

Canada

#4 Mar 2015

@ Tom,
Like the thetechguru said put the script in a script in Script Manager and it should work.
I don't have a GoPro, so I made this script using the EZ Camera on my InMoov, It worked great, took a snap shot every 5 seconds, (edit)then I stitched them together with Moviemaker, turned out pretty good.

Code:

#move head to the left
ControlCommand("Auto Position", AutoPositionFrameJump, "Head Left")

:repeat
forward(100,1000)
Sleep(2000)
ControlCommand("Camera", CameraSnapshot)
sleep(2000)
Goto(repeat)

tom.caine

USA

#5 Mar 2015

Got it. Now I understand. I added EZ Script to the project and entered the script. Works great. Thanks.

@Bhouston - I'm new to this so I don't quite understand the stitching question. I set the GoPro up to take a picture every 5 seconds. When I click Play, it assembles and plays all of the frames.

Thanks for the script. I think I'll try this.

Tom