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Automate your machine

This is the second and last week I will be making a machine with my team composed by Ilias, André and Óscar.
We decided to build a camera time-lapse slider. All the documentation and images of the process will be posted in the link below, in the group documnetation page. This week we really worked as a team, in which everyone of us would contribute with what they were more proficient with acording to everyones abilities.

My contribution this week hasn't been as much as the previous week. This is due that I am still learning to code and electronics and all this fields are brand new for me, while for the rest of my team it's basically their second language. Even so, I have tried to learn as much as I could and I have really done so, specially getting my head around how stepper motors work. Also, this week I have helped getting the componetns we needed and installing them on the actual machine. To finalize the project, I designed the final presentation sheet which communicates all our process and has a picture of the final outcome.
A few images of the finalized camera-slider which we called The Sloth can be seen below.


Group documentation: see whole project here


The Sloth summarized page here