Setting up time-lapse camera for Lift.

When me and Tom began discussing ideas for the Lift project we knew we wanted to incorporate a time-lapse of the structure being constructed, on Wednesday 30th April this idea was put into practice.

We travelled down to Unusual (www.unusual.co.uk) the company Lift are using to rig The Lift, Over the next month Unusual will be conducting a test build of The Lift in a field in Northampton. As the test build is going to be outside we had to make sure our time-lapse camera was weather proof, we brought a £8 waterproof electrical box from Maplins, cut a 20mm hole in the underside and fitted a waterproof electrical gland so we could pass the USB cable through the box;



We then mounted the web cam to waterproof box using a highly technical device known as gaffer tape;



One of the technicians at Unusual kindly engineered us a base to mount the box to;



The next step was to add some silicone spray and liquid rubber to ensure the rain was kept out;



The box was then mounted on top of a metal container, we drilled a hole through the side of the container and fed the USB cable through to the laptop inside;




The camera is now situated on the top corner of a metal container in a field just off junction 16 of the M1 taking a still image every 2 minutes, we calculated that this should give us 7 minutes worth of footage and use roughly 3 gigabits of the Laptops hard drive space. We will return at the end of May to collect the equipment and our 7 minutes of time-lapse footage. Fingers crossed!!