Basic Stamp Kite Camera

[Lorenzo M. Oliver]

http://forums.parallax.com/forums/default.aspx?f=21&m=331526

I have seen posts and websites about kite cameras and aerial photograhy and decided I wanted to try it. I bought a cheap 5.0 megapixel camera at savers and decided to connect it to the Basic Stamp.
First I had to make the Stamp talk to the camera. After taking the camera apart I found the connections to the 2 buttons I needed. (on/off and shutter)

With a multimeter I found that these were always off with 3v across them. I soldered wires to their connections and put the camera back together.
Now with batteries in the camera if I touched the on/off wires together the camera turned on and if I touched the shutter wires it took a picture.