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Triggertrap Shield for Arduino

Ladies and gentlemen... Start your soldering irons!

  • Open-source & designed for Arduino!

    The Triggertrap source code is open-source and available on Github. You can either use it with our code, or create your own custom photography projects using the Triggertrap Shield as a base for further development and experimentation. Geek-tastic!

  • Built-in RCA Auxiliary port

    If you can think of a way to turn it into an electrical signal, you can use the Triggertrap to take your photos, by plugging your car, your fridge, your door bell, or your fencing epee straight into the Triggertrap's RCA port: Perfect for further extending the functionality of your Triggertrap Shield!

  • Built-in laser sensor
  • Built-in Sound Sensor
  • Built-in ambient light sensor
  • Built-in Timelapse functionality

    Perfect for buildings building, clouds clouding, ice melting, or paint drying.

"The perfect addition to the tools of any experimental photographer" - Ubergizmo

Easy to build

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

Compatibility

The Triggertrap Shield for Arduino is compatible with hundreds of different SLR camera models from lots of different camera manufacturers.

Is your camera supported?

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Are you convinced you want one? We don’t blame you, it’s a bloody exciting piece of kit. The Triggertrap Shield for Arduino is available world-wide right now!

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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 Shield

Please 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:

  • Your Triggertrap Shield kit
  • Soldering tin
  • Soldering iron
  • An ATMega328-based Arduino
  • A camera connection cable

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!

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Recent news and blog posts

Some of our recent writings about the Triggertrap Shield for Arduino from the blog.

New Firmware for TTv1 & Triggertrap Shield!

Posted on March 21, 2013 by Haje Jan Kamps in Triggertrap Shield for Arduino, Triggertrap Shield for Arduino News, Triggertrap v1 News 2 Comments

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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Triggertrap Mid-January Sale!

Posted on January 7, 2013 by Haje Jan Kamps in Meta News & Company Updates, Triggertrap Mobile for Android, Triggertrap Mobile for iOS, Triggertrap Shield for Arduino News, Triggertrap v1 News 18 Comments
Triggertrap Mid-January Sale!

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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Triggertrap v1 and Triggertrap Shield schematics and plans

Posted on November 7, 2012 by Haje Jan Kamps in Behind the Scenes: Making Triggertrap Products, Kickstarter, Open Source, Triggertrap Product Info, Triggertrap Shield for Arduino, Triggertrap Shield for Arduino News, Triggertrap v1 News, Using the Triggertrap 2 Comments
Triggertrap v1 and Triggertrap Shield schematics and plans

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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Now shipping: Triggertrap Shield for Arduino

Posted on October 10, 2012 by Haje Jan Kamps in Triggertrap Shield for Arduino News 4 Comments
Now shipping: Triggertrap Shield for Arduino

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 […]

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Quick update on Triggertrap v1 and Shield

Posted on July 31, 2012 by Haje Jan Kamps in Behind the Scenes: Making Triggertrap Products, Triggertrap Shield for Arduino News, Triggertrap v1 News 8 Comments

We’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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The next batch of TTv1 & Triggertrap Shields

Posted on July 10, 2012 by Haje Jan Kamps in Behind the Scenes: Making Triggertrap Products, Triggertrap Shield for Arduino News, Triggertrap v1 News 10 Comments
The next batch of TTv1 & Triggertrap Shields

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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