Help: Lid lift/close project

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I have a project that involves placing an image or object inside of a covered bucket that needs to be identified by a drone. The goal is to have a bump target for the drone that is the ‘switch’ for the mechanism. Activating the trigger should cause the bucket lid to be lifted for two minutes and then set back down in a covered position until the next trigger. I have NO electronics background other than destructive behavior as a child because I wanted to see how things worked :slight_smile:

Thus, this is my first effort in learning and doing electronics projects. I have built this project/circuit a couple of times with revisions based on feedback in Facebook groups, I’m hoping this is my final version. I have two basic questions. The first one is a straight forward… is this wiring correct? The second question is related… can the SparkFun servo trigger be used for signal only as I have diagrammed or do I have to pass power OUTPUT from it to the motor? The reason I ask this, is that the servo is optimum power rating at 6.8 volts which exceeds the max input of the SparkFun servo trigger, thus I would have to use a step-up voltage regulator if that is the case? Can anyone advise?

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Can’t comment on your timer because I’ve never worked with that before but the IN and GND pads on the servo trigger need to get connected together with a switch to make the servo trigger change from A to B. the switch could be a relay you turn on or off with your timer. You can’t supply power to those connections like you show in your diagram, power needs to go to the VCC and GND pads on the top or bottom of the board.

You also need to connect the GND pad to the servo’s negative connection pin, the signal pin on the servo is connected correctly to SIG on the servo trigger.