[Andyk75] has done some fantastic work documenting his timelapse addition to his digital camera.* Most of the more expensive models of cameras have a remote shutter release, but the point and shoot jobs usually don’t. He decided to add the ability to turn the camera on, then shoot a picture, then turn it back off. Pretty smart, since these things tend to eat batteries pretty quickly if left on.* He is using an ATtiny24 for the brains, but the circuit should be pretty adaptable to others. The final piece has several features, like the ability to change the length of time between shots and automatically shut down when it gets too dark outside to continue. He has posted the schematics as well as the board layouts if you can find them amongst the ads in instructibles. You can check out a video of a sunset taken with this camera after the break.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kV6Lg__62j8&w=470
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kV6Lg__62j8&w=470
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