I am building a motion control camera system for Stop Motion animation. It’s pretty complicated, I am building it mostly all from parts from Open Builds. Its consisting of four large aluminium pillars supporting two rails. Between those rails is slung a moving gantry, and on that gantry is a vertical mount that can move laterally and vertically. On the end of that, is a pan and tilt mechanism that holds the camera. The whole thing will be motorised and possible to program within the Arco system in Dragonframe.
Monthly Archives: September 2020
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So my blog post about Tim Smiths death has been posted in Wire Magazine.
I’m super proud! I wrote to Derek Walmsley the editor, to tell him about Tim, and nagging that they should do an obituary. I suspect it was too late, but he asked if I would like to do it , as a letter. (I suspect so they didn’t have to pay) and I was happy to oblige!

Ok I clicked something, and boom… all the tiny tweaks I’d done to my website over the years were gone.
So it was time for a new theme. It’s pretty nice, I’m sure you agree, but will need some major fiddling to get it right.
Anyway, after I deleted the Ordo Ab Chao site, I decided to very slightly change my blog a bit in that direction, so some of the old look (the logo mainly) has now turned up here.
Let’s see how it goes?