Ultimate camera remote control

The 200mAh batteries should have lasted 2 hours, but the battery life proved unacceptably short.  Tested them to 1 hour of manely idle usage, at which time the transmitter was down to 3.5V & the receiver was down to 3.7V. 

They also seemed to self discharge.  They tended to always be dead after being stored. Anything bigger would require new enclosures.  Replacing the xbees with custom radios would save a lot of power.  The enclosures also need switch protectors.  The enclosures were sized to hold the switches in place.  They could be fatter everywhere except the switches, to sandwich a bigger battery next to the electronicals & give the antenna more room.

Went with translucent enclosures so the LED could be seen from both sides.  It still ended up not very visible.

Finally reprinted the melted panel & tweeked a few things.  

The decision was made to upgrade the radio batteries to 260mAh marked, but more realistically 200.  Also, the protocol got updated to transmit only when necessary instead of constantly.  It's quite a step up in complexity that wasn't worth it in the tupperware days, but is worth it when the enclosure can be optimized.  

The enclosure had to gain a battery bulge.

Those bulging panels have to be printed in 2 parts & glued.  Unfortunately, PLA can't be heated when it's clamped or it's completely destroyed.  The transmitter now has some warping despite just being in direct sunlight on a cool day.  In typical lion fashion, it uses the least possible amount of PLA so it's definitely on the ragged edge of failure.

The enclosure could be a lot smaller just by using chip radios & more purpose built batteries, but it wasn't worth it.  

In lieu of losing even more source code for the remote shutters, the lion kingdom finally put all its camera shutter projects on the hub.

https://github.com/heroineworshiper/shutter