Building Your Own Clap Snap

If you’ve ever tried to take pictures of yourself you’ll know that it can be a pain. It’s especially hard to get that perfect shot of your godly features when you’re out of breath from sprinting across the room.

This hack emulates the IR signals sent by a Nikon remote, either to take a picture right away or to take time lapse photographs at regular intervals. We’ve seen a similar time lapse remote using an arduino before and a really thorough one using an AVR, but they don’t take the same approach as design in terms of monitoring a microphone input for triggering.

The project includes status LEDs and adjustments for ambient noise and triggering, and it can be mounted to the camera body. How detailed your timing would need to be to have a kind of hand-made pulsetrain syntax. To affix the mounting hook to the project box, open the cover and pull out all of the components one more time and then drill the appropriate bolt holes. You can enjoy this project and find your new camera toy to be extremely useful in those situations where you need hands free operation or nonstop time lapse photography.

Rest of the project clap snap-1.aspx