Building Smart Drones with ESP8266 and Arduino

Controlling the camera

Controlling the camera to take selfies or record video is easy. You can use the shutter pin we used before or the camera's mobile app for controlling the camera. My suggestion is to use the camera's app to take shots, because you will get a live preview of what you are shooting and it will be easy to control the camera shots. However, if you want to use the Shutter button manually from the transmitter then you can do this too. We have connected the RC7 pin for controlling a servo. You can use a servo or a receiver switch for your camera to manually trigger the shutter. To do that, you can buy a receiver controller on/off switch. You can use this switch for various purposes. Clicking the shutter of your camera is one ...