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Documentation of the wireless motion controlled camera shutter for Faculty of Design student Vincent Castonguay.

A project in collaboration with makerspace - Faculty of Computer Science at the Free University of Bolzano. See also makerspace | learning by doing.

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Usage Instructions

Clone this repository with git command line or Git for Windows or else you can also download the repository as a ZIP file. Then put the project folder somewhere on your filesystem of your PC. Launch your Arduino installation and go to the menu bar File | Preferences. In the Settings tab click the Browse button on the right side of Sketchbook location: and select the project folder that you have just copied. Hit the OK button and close the Arduino IDE without saving the empty sketch. Now after every restart of the IDE you can launch any sketch that resides within the project folder and any included software library within the library folder will be available for your sketches.

Environment

The sketches have been developed with the Arduino IDE 1.6.9 from the arduino.cc website. You can expect that the sketches can be executed for any future release of the IDE. Any previous release of the IDE is not guaranteed to work as it could be that specific properties or behaviours of the IDE are expected or used.

As a second option for developing software for Arduino you can use the Visual Studio plugin Visual Micro. The Visual Studio IDE can nowadays be downloaded from Mircosoft for free as a Community edition, that needs only a valid registered Microsoft account such that it works properly.

Platform

The sketches have been developed for the Arduino Uno or Arduino Due. Any other board with an ATmega328 compatible microcontroller might also work but our mileage may vary.

The example sketches taken from http://www.instructables.com/id/Motion-Triggered-DSLR-Remote-System/ do not work with the Arduino Due. You have been warned!

Antenna

The radio modules used in this project transmit in the 433MHz license free frequency band. Therefore if an 1/4 wavelength antenna is attached to the radio module its length must be 173mm in the form of a straight wire soldered to the ANT pin of the module.

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