Arduino RC interface for helicopters

My friend is a model maker of RC helicopters.

For about forty years he has been building helicopters that are big, and I find it amazing how he can make them fly. However, he has no experience in Arduino and asked my help for a specific project that he’s making.

He needs to have a stabilised camera and the rear black headlight mounted on the helicopter move with a specific rotation angle and loop when a command on the analog remote control is activated.

Specifically, we would need to connect one channel of a Futaba RC Receiver so that, by operating the channels in question from a switch on the Radio Transmitter and only then, the servo control connected to that channel starts to make a series of preset movements on Arduino, until it is always deactivated by the same switch.

More precisely:
channel 1 switch in position 1: servo stopped in initial position with light OFF
channel 1 switch in position 2: switch on the led light (search light)
channel 1 switch in position 3: servo starts the movement with light ON

So we managed to get both in a room and while my friend was explaining what the servo needed to do, I was coding on the Arduino IDE.
At the end the result was done and we are here to share it with whoever may be interested.

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Видео Arduino RC interface for helicopters канала Carlo Stramaglia