30Aug DIY Wireless Android camera controller for your Canon DSLR.
More and more interesting android related camera controllers keep showing up. Manis404 has just posted a how to guide on his wireless camera controller. It basically uses an Arduino Pro mini controller, a USB host controller board, and a Bluetooth host module to create a wireless bluetooth controller for your Canon DSLR. All of the parts add up to about $50 and when you combine it with the YaNiS EOS app for your android phone, you’ll end up with a very interesting wireless controller for you Canon DSLR.
The project is still in Beta, but it looks like it has a lot of potential. If you feel up to building this little guy, check out the IO page blog. If you do take the time to build this, make sure you let them know what you’d like to see added. Beta testers are key to advancing projects like this.
I’m very interested to see how this progresses.
August 31st, 2011 at 2:12 pm
That’s pretty slick man. I’ve been meaning to get my hands filthy with an Arduino project, this might be a good one to take a crack at!
September 1st, 2011 at 6:34 pm
The okii USB follow focus is arduino based. Has anyone tried to make it wireless with a Bluetooth connection? That would be a cheap solution for a wireless follow focus
September 2nd, 2011 at 8:58 am
I wonder is this would work on an android tablet? Once the frame rate is bumped up to something useful it would make a great field monitor. Esp. with the A1 lenovo tablet just announced at $250 bucks.
September 2nd, 2011 at 6:50 pm
The live view frame rate will never reach the performance of a dedicated field monitor any time soon. This is a technical limitation that is very, very difficult to find a way around.
September 2nd, 2011 at 8:44 pm
You’re are absolutely right. Bluetooth just doesn’t have the data rate for full resolution video without some crazy video compression. Give it a few years and someone might solve the problem.
February 15th, 2016 at 8:46 am
Hey is it not possible to power the arduino over the usb port?