DIY Automated Turntable with Camera Shutter for 360° Product Photography - Tutorial
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 มิ.ย. 2018
- Find the detailed parts list and file-downloads at:
www.fluxgarage.com/turntable.html
Buy a kit here:
www.tindie.com/products/FluxG...
This tutorial shows how to assemble the FluxGarage automated turntable, which can be used for automated 360° product-photography. The turntable works fine for shooting small and light objects like cartoon character models, jewelery and so on.
It's driven by a centered stepper motor and controlled by an Arduino + Easydriver. The Arduino controller also works as an automated camera shutter via infrared (Works e.g. for Nikon D60). Find the instructions for the controller here:
www.instructables.com/id/Ardu...
Awesome! I would like to buy some of them. I went to the purchase link but it seems that you sell the kit.... And I want the finished product. I mean, the turntable ready to be used. Is it possible?
Hi Nicolas, thank you! Unfortunately we can only sell kits of the turntable. But assembling the turntable itself is very easy, you just have to add a stepper motor. Whereas building the additional controller requieres some knowledge to electronics and programming.
Is it good for video? Does it provide constant smooth turn? I don't want to attach it to a DSLR for shooting pictures. Does your code have options that allows constant turning?
Hi, the current controller does not yet have a video mode. But if you're familiar with C programming, it shouldn't be a big deal to hack the controller for performing smooth continuous rotations.
Hello, how much weight can it support? Does the kit have ball bearings? Thank you :)
Hi Matteo,
in general, this turntable is made to be used with small and light objects like jewelery, cartoon figures, technical gadgets and so on.
But sure, it should be possible to hack it a bit and make it work for higher loads. The main limitation is, that the stepper motor drives the turntable directly from the center, which will become ineffective when using heavy objects.
Using a stronger motor is one option, therefore you have to add higher standoff spacers between the middle- and bottom plate. For heavier objects, you sometimes also need to fill the tiny gap between the drive dog and the hole in the upper plate to avoid the turntable from shaking when it stops.
I think, it wouldn’t make sense to use this turntable for objects more than 1 or 2kgs, but I did not yet test the maximum possible load.
The kit comes with a "lazy susan" bearing (which contains steel balls inside).
I just put together the kit and started playing with the code, but the motor is not functioning as cleanly as I would expect. Could I get with you to chat about the issue? I like the kit.
Hi Jim, if the stepper motor does not rotate fluidly, this has most likely to do with the hardware, especially with the stepper motor wiring or the amount of current that goes to the motor. I guess you're using the easydriver stepper motor driver as I did im my tutorial, right? Then this guide from sparkfun will be interesting for you:
learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/easy-driver-hook-up-guide/all
Beside the correct wiring of the stepper motor, you can also try to adjust the tiny potentiometer on the easydriver board that determines how much current goes to the motor. You'll also find information on this in the article that I mentioned above.
how hard would it be to use a wired trigger instead of ir? :)
This shouldn't be a big deal, if you already have the right cable for your camera. There's a good instructable for this, just have a look at "Step 5: Activate the Camera Shutter With a Microcontroller":
www.instructables.com/Automatic-Camera-Shutter-Switch/
Once you have your hardware set up according to above's instructable, you just have to replace the content of the snap()-function of the controller code with sending a low signal to the specific hardware pin. And of course, you should then send a high signal again, so that the camera will only be triggered once.
@@FluxGarage amazing thanks so much! Really hyped to get this going (photogrammetry with the void technique + 1 extra pass for roughness map extraction). Thanks for putting this lit out there really appreciate it! :)
Hi Sir . hope you are fine . Sir any Solidwork Model File for this Turnable Table??
Unfortunately I don't have any 3D model of the turntable. As the turntable is based on lasercut acrylic plates, there are 2D vector files that can be downloaded at the regarding instructable:
www.instructables.com/Automated-Turntable-With-Steppermotor/
Instruction for the steppermotor+camera controller published at instructables:
www.instructables.com/id/Arduino-Controller-for-Automated-360-Product-Photo/
How about dyi slider?
Sure, I'll put that on my projects list for the future :)
Some Kits are now available at Tindie -> www.tindie.com/products/11670/