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The Gadget Works has only ever made two products, AutoMate and ShutterFire™ .

AutoMate is out of production and will never be revived. Its main drawback was that it required a Microsoft-compatible PDA as a controller. For those of you too young to know, PDA stood for "personal digital assistant", and was a device kind of like a smart phone but with no phone and no connection to the internet. And of course, no one now owns one nor can anyone find one to buy. I include AutoMate here because it is of historical significance. It actually preceeded the Gigapan, the ultra poplular panorama robot, was better in almost every way, and was half the price. But I didn't have the backing of Google, like Gigapan did, and I was not a marketing genius like Steve Jobs. Still, I sold several hundred of them online.

ShutterFire™, on the other hand, is a much more powerful version of AutoMate, and most importantly, the only controller it needs is a device that has WiFi and a browser. All the logic for controlling it is coded into the web pages that it serves via WiFi. So any smart phone, PC, or tablet will suffice. ShutterFire™ development reached the beta stage but personal life situations prevented me from bringing it to a state where it can be manufactured and sold. But the intention is still to do that. Watch this space!


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