Gyro-Cam Movies!

Construction Log / Hours Summary

WARNING: these may be large and take a while to download!

Below are time-lapsed MPEG movies of work being done. You need a movie player program that can play MPEG (.mpg) movies. On Linux, I use [mpeg_play].

I like to play these back at about 20 frames per second. If you play them faster than that, it may be hard to see what's happening. Even slower is better if you really want to keep track of what's going on.

Locally, I have a full-length video of the project from start to finish. But of course it is too large to publish here, at over 80 megabytes in size. It runs for a full 12 minutes at 20 frames per second and shows over 14,500 separate images from the project! I plan to copy this onto a VHS videotape soon.

The Whole Project Overview!

One Picture per Day (637K, 113 frames)
This contains one picture from each day of the time-lapse, resulting in a small, quick summary of the project from start to finish. Download this one if you have a slow connection. You may have to slow it way down or single-step it.
One Picture per Hour (3119K, 554 frames)
This contains one picture from each hour of the time-lapse. This is like the daily version above except that it is larger and more detailed so it will take much longer to download.
The following are frame-a-minute excerpts from selected days of work. These demonstrate how the 12 minute, 80MB final movie looks.
1999/09/04 (1426K, 260 frames)
Initial 2 hours of engine break-in. See it run!
1999/07/31 (1290K, 229 frames)
Wiring the engine. Notice the cat sleeping on the table.
1999/07/05 (760K, 135 frames)
Working on the instrument panel wiring. I'm using the sides and top of the engine crate as a table, just the right height.
1999/05/15 (816K, 145 frames)
Installing the engine, thanks to the help of friends Grant and Dana. Then I installed the heater hose.
1999/04/12 (605K, 107 frames)
Spraying the final gray primer on the cabin, followed by the black dusting coat.
Older, smaller frame-a-minute examples if you have a slow connection:

1998/12/23 (168K, 30 frames)
unpacking the lexan windows
1998/12/24 (168K, 30 frames)
verifying that instruments will fit in dash
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Timothy D. Witham <twitham@quiknet.com>
Last modified: Sun Oct 17 15:35:26 PDT 1999