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SimpleStacker is a DIY Arduino based focus stacking controller. The main goal of the project is to make something that is very easy to assemble. Even someone without any electronics experience should be able to build it. This means minimal amount of components and no soldering! Another sub-goal was to make it as cheap as possible.
The project can be built in an afternoon with components costing less than $25.
As a result of these requirements, the controller will only work in a studio environment, hooked up to a computer. There are no buttons and no display on it, so it can't be used out in the field. (It can however be upgraded to include those features.)
I also left the design very open, almost all components can be replaced with alternative parts.
If this doesn't match your requirements, feel free to check out some of the other DIY projects:
Of course, there's also the commercial alternative StackShot Pro. Which is what my controller to some extent is based on. I have reverse engineered the communication protocol for the StackShot and my software makes the controller appear as a StackShot to the computer. So any software that can control a StackShot will also work with the SimpleStacker.
At the moment there are three applications that can control a StackShot:
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