Arduino Timelapse Shield

Greetings Arduino and Timelapse Enthusiasts! Just thought I'd give you a sneak peak at what I've been working on of late. It's a Remote Shutter Proto Shield. I'm aiming to make this shield compatible with all major brands SLRs. Of course this is a very hard claim to make if I don't have access to all camera's for testing. I'm confident that it will work with Panasonic,Canon and Pentax SLRs at the very least. But as you can imagine I really need to do my homework on what's out there before I sell a product that claim this type of compatibility 

The shield will be compatible with the open moco timelapse engine as well as being a completely customizable with it's prototyping area. It's not a complicated circuit really. The most complex components are the opto-couplers which are basically just optical switches that safely trigger the focus and shutter on your camera. So I'm getting close to the manufacturing stages, I just have a few measurements to triple check before I send of the gerber files. This is quite a leap in complexity from the last PCB I designed. But I'm hopeful that it will work just as I designed it to when product is finally manufactured.

Disassemble Reassemble

In light of recent PCB manufacturing explorations, I have decided to go into business! Well on a very small scale :) Check out my new online store. Below are some pictures of what's currently in stock.

My First PCB Design (Part 2)

Well if you read my last post, you will know that I have been waiting for my first ever PCB design to arrive in the post. Well it finally came! exactly 10 working days from the time of order. Overall, I'd say the result looks pretty good! I haven't soldered one up yet. But when I do, I will do a video. The encoder fits perfectly, the only thing I might have done differently is give more space around the mount holes for extra strength. Please leave a comment if you would like to purchase one of these. They are designed to fit this rotary encoder from Spark Fun Electronics. If there is enough interest I will look into a simple way to sell and distribute online. Next stop, Arduino Shields!

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My First PCB Design (Part 1)

I've been playing around with a rotary encoder I bought from sparkfun.The pins wouldn't fit in a breadboard and I got sick of spaghetti wires everywhere.

So I asked my local hacker space about PCB etching. I decided to give Iron On Transparency Sheets a go. But I got half way through buying the bit's I needed and then came across this site. I'd already done some Eagle Cad Tutorials to create my circuit for the Iron On sheets. So I looked at how cheap I could do a PCB run with the design I already had. It turns out Very Cheap! About $14 AUS for 10 pcs including shipping. I literally can't make them myself for that much so I thought why not give it ago!?

This is my first design.

The boards should arrive in a couple of days. I'll do another post when they arrive.

Here's a link to Part 2 of this post.

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