I’ve made some slight progress on my aerial photography project. I bought a used R/C airplane radio with servos and a receiver. The receiver and servos were meant for park flyers (i.e. super light planes) so I figure that will be a good match for the kite where it’s all about weight. But you gotta power those things somehow, so I built a simple battery supply using a Radio Shack AA battery holder and shorting one of the terminals. The batteries add a lot of weight, but I can probably throw a resistor in series with the PS and power the camera off of the batteries as well. The idea is to mount the servo on top of the camera near the shutter button, then just wiggle the stick to snap a picture. I’ve tested this in a limited fashion and it seems to work nicely. The camera, of course, is the “one-time-use” CVS camera which has been hacked to be many-time-use.