Lights for $33 Time Lapse Camera

This remix covers the addition of LED COB lights and reflectors to allow the camera to take pictures in areas without good lighting or maybe at night when your studio is dark.

Once I made the camera it became obvious that some kind of lighting would be useful so I dug around in my box of LEDs and found a pair of these COB style lights that were left over from a previous project. These lights came from ebay but just about any lights that make enough light to shoot with will work. Make sure you have the right power supply for the lights you are using, mine were made to work with 12v so a used 12v wall wart works find.

The reflectors were cut from the shiny metal salvaged from inside a computer monitor, the tin gets very sharp when cut so a file will help to smooth over the edges.

The hinge pivot and mount2 were designed to sandwich around the aluminum bracket that connects to the metal reflector. This design keeps the heat from the lights away from the plastic parts. I used hea