About: I am a British Graphic Designer and Photographer, when I am not working, I spend my time making an array of projects. I used to make a lot of props, but now I spend most my time building crazy cameras and shoo…

Even a super expensive nice camera is only rated for up to 250,000 'clicks' or photos. I have used a few shutter releases in the past, some I have been impressed with.

Others failed far quicker than I would have liked. I had recently moved to using a mechanical keyboard, which features independent switches opposed to a membrane. The key switches used in them are rated for several million presses.

So I thought, these would be great for a remote shutter. I was working on a stopmotion video a few weeks back and had quickly wired up a remote using one of the switches. It was a joy to use and you could easily activate the camera with the press of a foot too.

So I decided to make a better version using 3 switches, one to focus, one to shoot and a third locking switch to lock the focus. Using a headphone jack and a 3.5mm to 2.5mm audio cable means this is a pretty simple project.

This project involves some soldering, if you have ever thought ‘I would like to learn to solder’ then this is a great project to get you started. As for learning the basics of soldering, there is a great guide you can download here - http://mightyohm.com/files/soldercomic/FullSolderComic_EN.pdf