more midterm process

Victory! the camera was not completely toast - I was able to break the ground connection and the power now works without melting down.

I also was able to find the power switch - I soldered that switch and the multimeter detects a flow through both of my switches.

I found the needed transistors at Radio Shack and also bought another camera (larger files and sd card storage for the images). I decided that the storage capacity of the keychain camera would not meet my needs. However, I am still testing the entire set-up with the keychain camera and then substituting in the higher quality camera.

In my wiring from camera

• yellow is camera ground
• black is the shutter switch
• blue is the power switch

I cannot get the camera to work with arduino.  The led is flashing at 1 minute intervals which the program tells it to do, but the camera is not responding. I have some confusion surrounding the wiring on the breadboard. In the pictures, “collector and emitter wires are jumped to adjacent rows with male headers,” but I am confused as to what those are, or rather what is holding the two wires and header together? and I think that they are joined to my camera wiring with the male headers.

Decided to make my own “together headers” with solder and alligator clips - same problem - program works good (led flashing properly) but the camera is not operating according to the arduino.  The camera can be powered on separately but still not by arduino . . .

I don’t think the power is reaching the entire breadboard - so I added three power wires . . . no change . . . then I followed a different diagram and connected the camera ground straight to the arduino . . .

No change - I am at a loss of what to try next??

So right now - camera doesn’t work yet

• humidity/temp sensor is a go
• both codes are working
• need to modify and combine the codes