Camera wiring update - Electrical Engineering Video Lecture - Electrical Engineering (EE) | Best Video for Electrical Engineering (EE)

In this video,
we're going to talk
about a wiring update
for our camera.
We're taking the camera
power button wires out
from the transistor and
resistor set up that we had.
We're twisting those together.
We were going to use a wire
nut to tie those together,
which is this orange thing,
but we decided not to.
It was too big.
So we're going to
solder those together
just using a soldering
iron and some solder,
and that will hopefully
give us a instant on
and we'll be able to take our
pictures much more rapidly.
We were having a lot of
problems with the lag
and the picture taking
too long, so now we're
manually connecting
our camera shutter,
and you can see it's
taking pictures right away.
So we don't have
to wait anymore,
because the power's always
being fed to the camera,
and we're able to take the
pictures with our shutter
by just controlling
that shutter button.
So we're taking out the
transistor and resistor
for the power button and
reconnecting our shutter
button, and so that should
accelerate the time that it
takes to-- Now this may
drain our battery faster,
but at this point
in time, that's OK.
So we're going to trim off
a little bit of our-- what
do you call-- heat shrink, and
we'll be using our heat shrink
gun to protect that new
joint that we've created.
And we're just going to tuck
that inside Bit-zee's shell,
and we won't worry
too much about it
because we've demonstrated
that it works there.
So it does greatly
improve how quickly
the camera can take a
photograph, which is important.
And so we're just going to tape
that end off there so we've
got our new connection, and
we'll tuck that into the shell,
like I said.
So now our camera should
function much more responsively
than it had in the past.
Right now, what we're
doing is we also
realized that when we wanted
to get the pictures off
of our camera, we couldn't
connect to the camera
because it's below
the USB connector.
The mini USB connector
on the side of the camera
is too low so we weren't
able to connect to the cable.
So what we're going to do
is modify the outer shell
just a little bit,
of the Bit-zee,
so that we can get the cable
to connect to the camera
more easily.
It looked like it would connect
before but we hadn't done it,
so we're just cutting off just
a little bit of the outer part
of that shell and that's
going to allow us to raise up
the right-hand
side of the camera.
OK.
So now that we've got that
trimmed out just a little bit
there, we can loosen the nut
there on the right-hand side
and move the camera
up just a little bit.
We'll adjust the nuts that are
underneath the camera board,
too, to raise the
camera up and make sure
that it stays high enough
to access our USB board--
our USB port, I should say,
on the camera board there-- so
just using a screwdriver to
raise those support nuts that
are underneath the camera up.
And then we'll verify
that the camera
can be connected to
the Micro USB cable.
And it can, so that's good.
And so now we're just
going to put our nuts back
on the camera, tighten it down,
and we should be good to go.