The well-dressed hacker [Sean Hodgins] has put together a neat little project: a battery powered remote shutter. He built it for use with Beme, the latest Snapchat clone that all of the cool kids are now using.
This service is designed to get away from the selfie culture by starting to record when you hold your phone against your chest, so you are looking at the thing being recorded, not your phone. [Sean] wanted a bit more control than that, so he built a remote control that starts the recording by moving the servo arm over the proximity sensor.
He built this neat little device from an Arduino Pro Mini, a battery, a small servo, a couple of power control boards and a cheap RF link from SeedStudio, all glued onto an iPhone case. It’s a bit rough around the edges (the servo makes some noise that is picked up on the recording, for one thing), but it is a great example of how to lash together a quick prototype to test a project out.
Looks like a device that can never be used in public. A mobile phone with a bunch of wires coming out of it, that and the handle unit could get you occidentally shot.
You realize this only happens in the US and this is a very small part of the world?
I suspect you would be at least questioned by the Police/Prefecture if you pulled one of these out in the middle of London/Paris.
I was talking about “getting shot”.
You realize this is where the majority of HaD users are living? The US isn’t small either, check it out on a globe. :)
I don’t care where the “majority of HaD users are living”. The US is only 4.5% of the World’s population – which perhaps is not written on your globe that you use to understand the world. Statistics – “go check ’em out”
You got the tag wrong ;)
Alpha, good catch. Fixing now!
didn’t need the arduino, a few caps & resistors would have worked just fine
how?