If I did it over again, I’d make Shutterfingers smaller

Shutterfingers is my simple servo controller that presses the shutter on cameras that don’t support remote control. My first attempt was in a sweet looking, but big aluminum case and incorporates a 6600 mAh battery to power the Arduino, servo, and external power for the camera. Well, it all works, but I’m not sure why I […] » about 400 words

Shutterfingers works!

I mentioned my plans to make a servo controller to mechanically press the shutter button on a camera when signaled from a motion control timelapse robot. The parts have arrived and it’s running on a breadboard. I’ve had to make a few changes to the code, including fixing a variable reference, but the biggest change […] » about 200 words

Shutterfingers

I started work on my first Arduino project today, though I have yet to get the hardware. The plan is to build a servo controller that can trigger the shutter on my Panasonic LX3 camera that lacks any sort of remote shutter release. I started looking into this before and found Cris Benton struggled with […] » about 500 words