Time lapse light sculptures

posted Sep 8th 2009 2:42pm by
filed under: digital cameras hacks, led hacks, misc hacks

time_lapse_light_sculptures

[Jared] sent us a feature he posted involving time-lapse photography and an LED. Using a custom built aparatus an LED is moved on two axis’ during a long exposure of around thirty seconds. The frame is wood and PVC with two gearhead motors powered by AA batteries to provide the locomotion. The LED is powered by a 3v button cell and automatically transitions through different colors.



6 Responses to Time lapse light sculptures

  • Mike says:
    September 8, 2009 at 3:34 pm

    A similar project was posted on Make with KNEX
    http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/09/knex_led_art.html

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  • Drew G says:
    September 8, 2009 at 3:42 pm

    It’s really not time lapse

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  • MrX says:
    September 8, 2009 at 5:24 pm

    This one is pretty simple but can easily expand into a more powerful hack. He could (for example) create a computer simulator that given the motors speed, create a pre-visualization of what the long exposure image would be.

    @Drew G

    Indeed

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  • Matt says:
    September 8, 2009 at 5:53 pm

    I’d like to see leds on the double square pendulum: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXRXWy5KMgs

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  • Johnboy says:
    September 9, 2009 at 5:36 am

    Not really time-lapse. More long-exposure photography.

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  • sgt. renfrew says:
    September 9, 2009 at 9:58 am

    The plural of axis is “axes”.

    As a general rule for difficult words, using an apostrophe in a plural is always wrong.

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