TriggerTrap

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The team behind the Triggertrap tried triggering flashes in response to the built-in strobe on a compact camera, and found that the Triggertrap was able to respond and fire the external flash such that it would correctly sync at shutter speeds down to 1/640th of a second - that's a response time of less than 1.6 milliseconds.

Of course, the light sensor can also be used for other things: Capturing the sunrise without getting up out of bed early, or taking a photo whenever somebody turns on the lights in a room. The laser trigger is a second light sensor, specially adapted for being used with a laser beam - point a laser at it from across the room, and the Triggertrap can take photos for you whenever the beam is broken.

The final built-in sensor is a microphone that can trigger your camera whenever the Triggertrap senses a sound - a door opening, a baseball hitting a bat, etc. You can also use it as a hands-free kit for studio photography: Simply whistle or clap your hands to trigger your camera. Perfect for when you're doing stop-motion animation, for example.

Additionally, the Triggertrap has an Auxiliary port, to which you can connect nearly anything. Wire it to the horn on your car to take a photo when you honk at someone; connect it to a pressure-sensitive switch under your door mat to photograph your guests; add a switch to your cat-flap to find out which of the neighbour's cats keep stealing your cat-food; hook it up to an infra-red motion detection sensor to take photos of wildlife. Anything you can think of: as long as you can find a way to make your event create an electric signal, Triggertrap lets you use it to trigger you camera. In addition to triggering a camera based on sensor inputs, the Triggertrap has timelapse functionality built-in.

"Part of the excitement about the Triggertrap", says its inventor, Haje Jan Kamps, "is that I have no idea what people are going to use it for. It's an incredibly versatile piece of photography kit, and because it is so easy to hack, I'm expecting creativity to go off the charts."

Petri