Using the rubber band to hold the i-pad in is both simple and smart. I love how sometimes you come up with simple ideas that are both easy and fast to do.
I guess my tone was lost on my comment. "...so true..." as in "yeah, those apple fanboys need to display their logos everywhere they can, better not hide it." I was agreeing with his unspoken satire of the situation
So sad though. I rubber band my iPhone to a heatsink at home, but heatsink a don't fit in pockets 😕 As the phones get nice and toasty, I don't know why there is no commercial heatsink case. Battery seems to last longer keeping the phone cooler.
I spent half the video saying to myself "Why's he doing it that way?" Then I read the description "Protects the iPad even if the tripod is knocked over." Now all is clear. Great video.
I loved your video and the innovation for the buttons. Your shop is awesome and I see a lot of custom adaptations! My only concern is how high you run your bandsaw blade and how close your fingers get. I'd use dowels for the buttons...
That's pretty awesome! I actually have that same Acer tablet, and you're right: the camera's pretty crap. The tablet itself makes a great recipe book for the kitchen though!
You are a genius! I have a case for my iPad that’s made out of the same material as Crocs (EVA foam) and it has a self hinged handle that doubles as an easel. It’s on Amazon under HDE and it’s more for kids, but it protects it and makes it easy to find and hold. But it isn’t tripod mountable as it is.
TheBowserBasher I just checked it out, dang those are some quality videos! Also, the shelf looks great but I think the iPad might be a little too close to the wall.
1:48 the solution i was thinking of had a forked off section of wood with a knee you could press and it bent inward to the button, yours is a bit simpler and effective
For making the buttons near round and smooth, you can use a small bolt through the centre (like an axle) and attach them to a drill or Dremel. Let the drill rotate the button/wheel and just contact the button with sand paper.
Hilariousness about Apple logo being REQUIRED to be visible aside... You can use it to 'line up' the shot since it is reflective and it works like a little mirror. As a side note, a small laser attached to the side or maybe near/in the camera mount would also help line up shots very roughly as well.
Great project. I used my iPad Pro to run Sketchup Viewer and accidently pushed it off of the work bench. It landed face down on the concrete floor. Your iPad holder could be fasten to my workbench's dog hog holes, but It may need a tilt mechanism.
Very clever solution for everything. I wanted to make something similar for my smartphone (so a little smaller) but I didn't get very far till now. This video helps a lot. Thanks for sharing.
To help keep your time lapses uninterrupted,(notifications or calls) Go to settings > accessibility > guided access This is also helpful for parents to restrict kids to only one app.
Been watching you for years. I imagined you as a linux/PC guy so I was quite surprised to see the Apple ipad. I've been a vocal anti apple guy for years and had to eat crow when I acquired an ipad and iphone.
Another impressive project design and build, Matthias. I am in awe of your ability to adapt design changes and fixes on the fly, like for the volume buttons. Question: if you happen to know, how much of your ipad's memory did it take to shoot that ending sequence when you installed the additional lighting? I assume you unload the video to iTunes?
I'd like to have something like a 5 axis floating gimbal that can hold 50 or 100 lbs for something like a monitor or tv. Would probably be the ultimate monitor stand. Have you ever looked at doing something like that?
Another entertaining video. Cheers Matthias! I happened to notice your new(?) fence for your table saw you use in this video. Did you film this by any chance? It looks exactly what I'm after for my own home made table saw and fence.
I think making those buttons by cutting some dowel would have been a FAR safer approach. Pushing the envelope too much is what leads to missing body parts.
iPad batteries generally last a ridiculously long time, at least in my experience, especially doing something that's not very cpu-power demanding like a camera. I don't think he'll be doing such a long time lapse that the battery dies.
Scenario: I really want to make a video now with my good iPad camera. Oh shit I forgot to charge it. If only I made a hole for my charging cable so I could use it while charging. P.s love these videos, he’s a lot smarter than I am so he knows what he’s doing.
Another great project ! I love my ipad I actually just got a new one and purchased a favoremate case with a Bluetooth keyboard it kind of makes it more like a Mac book Another advantage is the keyboard has a set of shortcut keys on the top row so your not always tapping the screen or ipad buttons as much for things like home button or volume , brightness ,etc It was a ok deal from Amazon at around 50 bucks plus the keyboard is waterproof they claim ? And it wraps the unit in a aluminum case i would think if you edit on the ipad or type text it would be a good unit to look into as it makes it feel more like a laptop without a mouse
Hello, in stead of rubber band you could try some strong megnets on the long side of the wood. If you look on youtube/google for ' magnetic cover ipad' you see what i mean. Love your videos!! 👍 Also look at youtuber Soundman CA for ideas, he makes dashboard kits for tablets.
Did you have some additional functionality you wanted from the iPad? Because otherwise I would have just bought a new camera that could take time lapses.
I also made a box to hold my tablet on a tripod. One problem that took me too long to solve: the tripod had a screw which fitted nicely in a thread under a digital camera. Also, the digital camera could easily be mounted on a 6 (or was it 8?) mm screw. So, I concluded that a 6 mm nut should be able to be mounted on the tripod's screw. But.... this was not possible! After many thoughts and efforts, I understood that the tripod was ...japanese!! And Japan industry has different screws from those used in the West! (grrrhhh....!!) So... I destroyed the screw on the tripod by drilling it, because I couldnt remove it otherwise. Fortunately, it was aluminium, or something. Then I replaced the tripod's screw with a 6 mm screw. I dont have this magic part that Matthias used, the one that can be screwed into a hole and has threads to receive a screw. So, the solution that worked was to trap a nut between the lower side of the box and a piece of wood with a hole in it, so that the nut shows from the hole. Then the screw on top of the tripod can be screwed on the lower side of the box. Another problem: Untill now I used this box mount once. The problem that came up was that the tablet with the box was kind of heavy. The solution was to tighten the tripod before mounting the tablet. It works nicely as a cinema camera!!
Why do you like using tablets for timelapses as opposed to cameras? My nikon d7200 has built-in timelapse features, you can have the finished product either as a video or as a whole lot of (raw) pictures. You also don‘t need to build a wooden frame to get it to mount to a tripod ;)
Matthias Wandel Right, it will only do 1fps or slower and you will hear the shutter/mirror. In that case you’d probably need some fancy new Sony mirrorless.
I hjave question for you please: Did you glue the tripod mounting blockon the board back side or secured it with some screws from the inner board side? Thanks
threeheadedpuppy glue is stronger than screws when properly applied. The stress on this is pretty much tiny. And the glue should last longer than the iPad.
Thanks for the link, that would suggest that you’d need to exert somewhere in the region of around 90kg of pressure to break the joint, probably more as that was measured with 20cm of leverage distance. But what it doesn’t test is how that changes over time, with lots of applications of a much smaller force. For instance, if you exert just 2kg of force, the weight of the ipad and the frame, at the joint, 100 times, does that joint get weaker and weaker until it eventually fails? My gut says yes, although what that threshold is, is anyone’s guess.
