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Motorising my camera slider – The electronics

In Part 1 of this little adventure, I spoke about the 3D printed parts I created to motorise my camera slider. I plan to make a few revisions to those printed parts in the future, but for now, they’re functional, so I’m leaving them alone for the minute. Now, it’s time to move onto the electronics side of things.

My plan is to power the whole setup using 3 cell LiPo RC batteries. I have a bunch of these from a drone I no longer use, so I figure I should do something with them instead of leaving them to rot.

But I can’t just hook a stepper motor straight into a battery and magically expect it to work. I need other items, too. And that’s where this post comes in.

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Motorising my camera slider with 3D printing

Man, it’s been a while since I posted on here, huh? Well, all I can do is apologise. It’s been a crazy few months here.

I’ve been to the BETT show in London to interview Dobot about their new 3D printer, I’ve made a couple of trips to Scotland to visit friends, and I just spent 5 days in Birmingham interviewing people at The Photography Show and to meet up with some old and new friends. I’m also moving house in the next couple of weeks, and there’s been a lot of prep work for that.

In between that, though, I’ve been getting into 3D printing.

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