Snowzilla timelaps

So we got some snow here.  The forecast projected it's arrival with pretty good accuracy.  Since I had the advance warning, I set up a system to do a time lapse of it.

First thing was to find a camera that could run for 48 hours or more. Looking through my bin of parts and found my old iPhone 4s.  Took a while to get it running 9.2 (not sure that was a wise choice).  This version of iOS is pretty sluggish on an older iPhone.  There's something to the class action lawsuit being filed.

Next up, I needed to find an app to take the photos.  Luckily there's no shortage of apps in the app store to do this. The app Lapse It was free, and well reviewed. So I got it installed and it was amazingly easy to use.



Tap on New Capture:



I tapped on the timer and set it to take a photo every 15 minutes.



I took the defaults for everything else.  You can only do 480p in the free version, to upgrade to 720p or 1080p you have to purchase the pro version.  A fair tradeoff.   Next I had to position the camera.  I went low-tech:


Anyway, the end result:


It turned out pretty good.