DSLR Hack – How to Build a Nintendo DS DSLR Camera Controller!
I know that DSLR camera controllers can come in handy when it comes to shooting photos period but do you really want to spend hundreds of dollars on commercial camera controllers that come with presets that you cannot change?
There’s a hack for that, you can build yourself a Nintendo DS DSLR camera controller. You will first have to start by making a DIY interface cable but once that’s done, you can take advantage of the free open-source Arduino code that will let your new DS DSLR camera controller work flawlessly with any of the homebrew DSLR programs found here.
There are two main components to this system. The first is a hardware system for which we specified some desired functionality: It needed to be user programmable, have an eight hour battery life, and fit in a jeans pocket. We were tired of lugging a laptop up ladders or into the narrow spiderweb of walkways above a soundstage. It was always our plan to build our own system using a programmable microcontroller and LCD system (which is what Promote eventually ended up creating), but a more flexible method occurred to us.