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Sunday, July 3, 2011

Trigger Your Camera Using Automatic Air Freshener Parts | JCOPRO.NET


Trigger Your Camera Using Automatic Air Freshener Parts

Per an earlier post, Glade was nice enough to provide a very hackable set of components in their “automatic spray” air freshener.  Once I had the components in hand, an obvious use was for a remote camera trigger.  After some work in the shop, here are the results:

remote trigger trial 4.wmv


Video Link...
http://youtu.be/TtnVszHZV6o

What you see in the above video is an early feasibility test (there’s a better video later), but I eventually got everything mounted securely and put it on a tripod.

Once I had the components from the air freshener free, setting it up as a remote trigger was surprisingly easy.  Taking a piece of 1/2″ and a piece of 3/4″ plywood that I had around from some other projects, I cut the 3/4 inch plywood to a 2 1/8″ x 3 3/4″ rectangle and the 1/2 inch plywood to  a 3 1/2″ x 3 3/4″ rectangle.  I put the 3/4″ plywood on the bottom and nailed the 1/2 inch plywood to the back of it as shown to the right.

Read more on his site...

The following is a video of the “completed” project.  The whole thing is definitely a prototype, but for something hacked together I’ll call it complete for now.

remote trigger tripod2.wmv


Video Link...
http://youtu.be/y_d2-_ilMDM


Read More and See Pics...
http://www.jcopro.net/2011/02/02/remote-camera-trigger-using-an-air-freshener/

Pretty good idea!:)

Don

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Trigger Your Camera Using Automatic Air Freshener Parts | JCOPRO.NET
YouTube - ‪remote trigger tripod2.wmv‬‏
YouTube - ‪remote trigger trial 4.wmv‬‏

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