After the projet had been shelved for a year or so, I'd been introduced to the Arduino and one of the first things I tried out was to revive my time lapse rig.

So after throwing out the PC (which found a new home as my file server since the Raspberry Pi was not a thing back in the day) and replacing it with a tiny Arduino with a 4x20 LCD and a thumb stick with push for control, the system became a bit useful for the first time.

The control surface lets you set the starting direction, end direction and two of the three parameters: number of frames, time between frames and real-time to be covered. The remaining parameter is a result of the other two.

If the setup is complete, the bot starts taking pictures.