How I made my timelapse of the Derwent River
If you haven't yet watched the timelapse yet you can view it on YouTube here https://youtu.be/jFxGNTsc6YE . If you want to watch just the raw footage look here https://youtu.be/7xBx3e2mPcQ . The setup I used for the timelapse was a webcam on a tripod connected to a raspberry pi 4. Some of the numerous problems I encountered were the webcam letting in light due to its shape - I solved this with a 3d printed shield. Another problem was the windows were double glazed - solved with some black paper with a cutout for the camera. Also the raspberry pi doesn't have a chip for timekeeping so whenever the power went out (like in the power outage) I had to set the time again. My code was also a bit problematic, for some reason my USB could only hold about 2,500 photos. To create the overlay I used a flask webserver that was taking the filename extracting the time and date then showing the information on top of the image served from a file server with all the images. I then used ...