Ladies and gentlemen... Start your soldering irons!
The Triggertrap Shield for Arduino is a great DIY project for beginners and experienced electronistas alike. The shield comes unassembled, but we have in-depth desctiptions and step-by-step guides to help you along
The Triggertrap Shield for Arduino is compatible with hundreds of different SLR camera models from lots of different camera manufacturers.
We are here to help you get the most from your Triggertrap. For starters, check out the FAQ and the User Manual for the Triggertrap v1 to find out how to use it.
For information to build your own, we’ve created an extensive user guide which will help you identify all the parts, and an easy-to-follow step-by-step guide to building your own Triggertrap Shield:
Assembling your Triggertrap ShieldPlease note that we don’t have the capacity to help people with individual assembly problems with the Triggertrap Shield; It’s not hard to build one, but if you order one, it’s useful if you have enough electronics skills to troubleshoot any troubles you run into.
Nonetheless, if you do run into issues, try our community help pages; it might be that your question has been asked (and answered!) before, or that someone knows the answer.
Get some help!To build your Triggertrap, you’ll need:
For the build itself, some small pliers would be useful as well, along with a desoldering device.
What cable do I need?The Triggertrap v1 and Triggertrap Shield for Arduino are both open-source – to find out more, check out our licencing and open source page. Iver there, you’ll find the links to the source code and answers to any other questions you might have!
I want my C++!At Triggertrap, we’re all about the Web 2.0 love… So join the fun on all these mighty fine sites:
Some of our recent writings about the Triggertrap Shield for Arduino from the blog.
It’s been pretty quiet around Triggertrap v1 and our Triggertrap Shield for Arduino – but that doesn’t mean that stuff isn’t happening in the background! Today, we’re announcing that we’ve released a brand new firmware update for both devices, bringing the version number up to version 0.3.36
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We had a bloody great number of you ordering Triggertrap Mobile and other products in November and December. I know, I know, it sounds pretty unlikely, but it turns out that there are still one or two photographers in the world who don’t have a Triggertrap. So we decided to run a mid-January sale!
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As part of our Kickstarter campaign, we promised that the Triggertrap Shield and Triggertrap v1 would be as ‘open’ as we could make them. In practice, this meant that the source code and the schematics would be completely open source. We’re really sorry it has taken us this long to release the schematics; we meant […]
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Wow, this one has been a very long time coming, and is the final Kickstarter reward to go out the door. However, we’ve finally got some beautiful news: I’ve test-assembled one of the final production ones, and we have a couple of hundred Triggertrap Shield for Arduino kits sitting in our warehouse, ready for you […]
Read MoreWe’ve been waiting patiently (by which I mean that we’ve only been calling and e-mailing our manufacturers every six hours, rather than every 3 hours…) for the next batch of Triggertrap v1‘s to come into stock. It turns out there was another round of problems with the acrylic casings, but the most recent update from […]
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A lot of people are wondering that now that we’ve shipped out the first few hundred Triggertrap v1’s, what about the few people who haven’t received theirs yet? And what if you still want to order one? Triggertrap v1 We’ve finally heard back from our manufacturers, and they say that the next batch of Triggertrap […]
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