<p>There are advantages to shooting time-lapses using a cheap point-and-shoot camera for example, if it gets stolen, you're not out thousands of dollars but there is one particular challenge that is difficult to overcome: battery life. If you want your creation to cover any significant period of time, you need a way to keep the camera running.</p><p>The video above shows you one way to get around this problem if you're using a AA-powered camera: just build your own DIY battery pack.</p><p>The DIY demonstration was put together by tutorial and tip site Phototuts+, and it shows you how you can significantly extend the battery life of a standard AA-battery driven compact by simply adding a makeshift "battery grip" of sorts.</p><p>We won't go into the step-by-step details, since the video covers everything, but you're basically taking a few AA-batter holders, soldering them together into a pack, and then connecting the pack to the positive and negative poles the camera uses to draw power when loaded with standard AAs.</p><p><a href="http://petapixel.com/2013/09/09/building-diy-battery-pack-capturing-long-time-lapses-point-shoot/">Keep reading...</a></p>