I purchased a cheapo digital camera from wal-mart with the intention of hacking it apart and automating it to snap pictures every few seconds. The plan was to mount it to a car or kite and produce flash photography. (sure my real digital camera can take time lapse photo's but I didnt want that $$$ camera dangling from a kite.)
The camrea before any alterations.
Located the shutter switch and confirmed that simply shorting it would snap a picture. Unsoldered the leads.
Devised a circuit based on a 555-Timer chip to short out the shutter switch at a calculated interval.
Close up of the test circuit(s)
Once it was working, I transfered the circuit to a small piece of perf board.
more pictures will be uploaded soon.
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