Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Controlled Chaos: Making a Motorized Slider from Scrap”.
For my current build, i really wanted to get some nice beautiful, slow pans and maybe even some time lapses. Moving, but i hate spending money and i didn’t want to build a complicated sliding rig or anything like that. So i wanted to build the cheapest rig. I could, for a nice sliding shot to do that. I’Ve got this piece of scrap wood. That’S got a nice slick side finish on it and i ran over to the hardware store and i picked up the absolute cheapest cordless driver. I could get with variable speed trigger, so what i want to do is i want to rip this apart. Mount the motor on there take the trigger turn it into a foot, pedal or or maybe just a manual adjustment. I don’t know and make a sled to slide on this nice smooth board, and that should give me something that works for dirt cheap. This is about 20 bucks and the wood was about 10., but you could do it cheaper if you just pulled an old drill out and gutted it and used some scrap wood. Let’S get started. Okay, if you disassemble the trigger. This is what you get it’s starting to fall apart, so i’m gon na have to zip tie it back together, but you can see this little guy slides back and forth and makes contact with all these little points and that’s the way i want it, not spring-loaded.
I want it like this so that i can just set the speed, give it a little nudge and get a real, slow move or move it further and get a faster move, etc. So i’m gon na leave it like this, where i can access it. Hopefully, if i haven’t ruined it – and here we are, it’s done um – i cut it in half added an extension so that i could not have to be right there at it to get it started. I can frame my shot, get in front of the camera and then slowly moving this modified trigger there we go or whatever. Unfortunately, this is also very loud and whiny, so i’m only going to be able to use it in shots that i’m going to pull the audio off of so here it is, i just duct taped it in place strapped a sled on used some dental floss to Attach it and it drags it along, i know it looks silly, but you can actually get some decent results, foreign, so that’s the whole project as simple as it gets now. If you wanted to go further with this and get better footage, there’s a whole list of things that you could start doing quickly and easily to make this better, the first of which would be like a rail or a guide to keep your sled nice and straight So it doesn’t slide around. You could replace your drill with something a little bit more fluid something that doesn’t make as much noise. There’S just there’s tons of ways you could make it better, but in a pinch this will get the job done.
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