I also had to do some work on the room. I picked up some cheap shelving to keep things organized, some Velcro to help with wire management, and a small white board to write down notes and help keep track of information, and some various simple small things just to have a nice work space. There was a spare bed that was leaned up against a wall that i moved to the laundry room. I can’t stand working in a small cramped environment, especially if I don’t have a place to put things that i am not currently using. A proper work space without having to step over various things makes the entire experience a whole lot better. My first timelapse is complete, I grew a little bit of wheat grass. I took a lot of notes on the whiteboard, logging growth rates, watering times, etc. All of this information will become important as I get further in my project.
November 11. 2013
The first wheat grass trial was a success, now I am waiting for some things to arrive in the mail, in the meantime I am having a little bit more fun with the grass.
Running into problems 11/13/2o13 Unfortunately things do not always go according to plan, and often problems like to bring friends. I came home yesterday and checked on the timelapse progress, only to find the water return line had skipped from its clamp and instead of dumping the excess water into the water bucket, it was dumping it on the carpet. Luckily it appears that i only dumped a gallon or so of water onto the carpet. I shut off the watering system, used towels to absorb as much water as I could then put out a high powered fan to dry the remaining water. I had a bowl of wheat grass seeds soaking the last few days and set the camera up to take some images of the wheat grass growing from seedling to sprout. I checked on it few hours later to see FLASH FLASH FLASH coming from the room. Somehow the camera was just triggering every second or so as its buffer cleared. I spent some time troubleshooting, but i had to basically put everything on hold for a little while. Plugged in Chronocontroller -half press results in metering. camera only triggers on full press. Plugged in Greenthumb -Camera triggers with half press. Plugged in Greenthumb plus hotshoe adapter with PC sync to the Strobe and plugged into the strobe it triggers non stop. So what does all this mean? It seems I have a wiring issue on Geenthumb. If i put the chronocontroller between greenthumb and the camera i do not have this problem. I will be building another Greenthumb controller this weekend so i can use one while i develop more capability on the other, and hopefully i will be able to clear this problem. This is sort of how things go… sometimes everything works flawlessly, other times you rack up 3,000 shutter actuations and a gallon of water in your carpet. Here is one of the clips that i just finished before the problems started. no audio, very raw.