This project started as a easy microcontroller replacement on this IR video camera remote control PCB. but the soldering job went rather badly for [Balthamos] so he changed things up and developed his own easy AVR remote shutter release and intervalometer.

The DIP chip seen with many of its legs bent backwards is the ATtiny25 which makes the system work. It’s patched into the traces for the battery connections, button (on the other side of the board) and the IR LED he’s pinching with his left hand. point it at a Cannon video camera and push the button to snap a photo. but as you can see in the clip after the break it also serves as an intervalometer; letting him take several pictures with a user-defined pause between each. That mode is selected by first pressing and holding the button. once released the chip waits for a second button press to register the delay. The new circuit still fits in the original case after just a bit of alteration to it.