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AutoMate integrates all of the following in a small lightweight package:
- A programmable robotic camera platform, ideal for making gigapixel panoramas
- A programmable electronic shutter release with both full-press and half-press control
- A programmable intervalometer that can run complex custom programs, ideal for making time-lapse movies and panoramas
- A programmable self-timer that can run custom programs
- A remote control for operating the robot and activating the half-press and full-press shutter release
- Two input lines for sensing external trigger events and running custom programs in response
- A custom program editor
- A database of user settings and custom programs
AutoMate consists of a robot that you control and program with your own hand-held
PDA or cell phone. The PDA or cell phone runs Windows Mobile and our special AutoMate software.
The robot supports camera and
lens combinations weighing up to 6 pounds, making it ideal for digital SLRs with heavy lenses. The AutoMate
software is graphical in nature and extremely powerful and versatile. You can use the hand-held to
directly control the motors and the shutter release or you can use it to create programs that you
send to the robot. When you send a program to the robot, it saves the program in its memory.
The robot can either run the program immediately or it can run the program later. When you send an intervalometer (time-lapse)
program, the robot runs the program at every interval. When you send a self-timer program, the robot runs the program
when the timer runs down. When you send a trigger event program, the robot runs the program when it senses the trigger event.
There are two trigger events, so you can send different programs for each trigger. The programs remain in memory even after turning
the robot off.
Although the most likely use of AutoMate is with a camera, you can mount anything on the robot that you choose,
such as a telescope or search light or CCTV camera. You can even use AutoMate to build your own remote-controlled inventions.
Your imagination is the only limiting factor.
The first pass at a user manual is now online here. Photos and videos coming soon!
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