Useful links

A collections of useful links which in one way or another relates to Fast Stacker.

General macro photography sites

• Cheap and simple studio stacking setup: lots of interesting cheap solutions for extreme macro
• A Macro Stacking Rig
• Macro photography calculators (depth of field, effective aperture etc.):
  • coinimaging
  • extreme-macro.co.uk
  • cambridgeincolor
• Extreme Macro: a large collection of articles about extreme macro photography
• http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/index.php: largest forum dedicated to macro photography
• http://coinimaging.com/: macro lens test site
• Rylee Isitt's DIY Focus Stacking Controller with Arduino
• Electronic shutter on Canon DSLRs
• Photoduino

Fast Stacker Hardware

• Potential substitutes to Velbon Super Mag Slider macro rail (I have now idea if they are usable as a basis for Fast Stacker):
  • Proxxon 27100 Micro Compound Table KT 70
  • Wormdrive Macro Rail Fine Focus Focusing Arca / RRS
• Useful links related to Nokia 5110 LCD:
  • http://ladyada.net/library/rccalc.html
  • http://wiki.jmoon.co/display/nokia5110/
  • https://arduinodiy.wordpress.com/2014/07/05/nokia-5110-display-on-arduino/
  • https://learn.adafruit.com/nokia-5110-3310-monochrome-lcd
  • http://www.avdweb.nl/arduino/hardware-interfacing/nokia-5110-lcd.html
• Links for EasyDriver:
  • http://www.schmalzhaus.com/EasyDriver/Examples/EasyDriverExamples.html
  • http://xavierstechno.blogspot.ca/#!/2012/02/easy-driver-with-arduino.html
  • http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/0AEE7B9AD4B3E04186256ACE005D833B
  • https://staceyw1.wordpress.com/2011/01/08/test/
• Relays:
  • How to Add Relays to Arduino
  • http://arduinotronics.blogspot.ca/2013/01/working-with-reed-relays.html

Fast Stacker software

• https://www.arduino.cc/: official Arduino site
• Intro to SPI
• Bitmap converter

Useful gadgets

• Steel Lab-Lift Lifting Platforms Lab Jack Scissor Stand Rack 100 x 100mm: useful as a vertical motion platform, to place macro objects on