Mnux9 / shutter

Camera shutter controlled by raspberry pi

Shutter

Camera shutter controlled by raspberry pi.

Description

My old camera doesn't have any intervalometer function so i made this dogy script to controll the shutter with a raspberry pi's GPIO pins

Script

replace [GPIO] with the number of your GPIO

echo "---------AUTO SHUTTER---------"
echo "PRESS: CTRL + C TO STOP"
raspi-gpio set [GPIO] dh 
raspi-gpio set [GPIO] dl 

Run

1. ssh into the raspberry pi
2. create shutter.sh and paste the code into it
3. allow execution of the scrip chmod +x shutter.sh
4. set your GPIO as output (this needs to be done after every restart) raspi-gpio set [GPIO] op
5. test ./shutter.sh
6. run it on repeat (replace [DELAY]...) watch -n [DELAY] script.sh
7. press ctrl + c to stop it

Wiring

The wiring is very simple:

1. Just take the camera apart (don't get zaped by the flash capacitor like I did) and tap into shutter button pins. This will be differend on other cameras.

2. Connect the the thing to raspberry pi. Pin 32 and pin 34 as the ground in my case. This can be chanaged [GPIO].