I am shooting the Space Shuttle Launch on 11/30 and I need to build some timers to turn on our triggers during the launch window, so they won't shoot a lot frames of nothing. The window is 10 minutes long over a period of 7 days I think. I want to use the arduino to turn on the power to the trigger via a small relay. The hardware to do this is pretty easy. I have also been building and testing a Moco system based on OpenMoco so I have a little understanding of the hardware. I am going to use a DS1307 RTC chip and want to program power on times on several rigs (which will be on their arduinos) and a sequence of events on a couple of other rigs. Adding other things seems to be strait forward once I get the basics figured out. How do I code the arduino for the 1307 and get a digital output to trigger a relay for 10 minutes.
Another rig I am doing I just need to wake up the camera via the focus line and then trigger another device to start video recording on a Canon 5D then stop it later. Programming this for the window times, they change every day, over the 7 days should be simple if I can get this to work (I think).
Thanks for any help.