I made the servo I took from the lab work with Arduino and the Motor Shield.
I am attaching a video of it working. The code I used is pretty simple, it just goes from 0 to 180 degrees and comes back.
The servo works right with either the USB or the power adapter with no extra power to the motor shield. I don't know what will happen when we put some load into it.
Also, I found out that when you attach the motor shield into the Arduino, all the input-output pins are in use, so I don't know how we're going to use both the input-ouptuts AND the motors. Anyone knows anything about this?
Here is the code I used:
#include <>
ServoTimer1 servo1;
int pos = 0; // variable to store the servo position
void setup()
{
servo1.attach(9); // attaches the servo on pin 9 to the servo object
}
void loop()
{
for(pos = 0;pos <> // goes from 0 degrees to 180 degrees
{ // in steps of 1 degree
servo1.write(pos); // tell servo to go to position in variable 'pos'
delay(15); // waits 15ms for the servo to reach the position
}
for(pos = 180; pos>=1; pos-=1) // goes from 180 degrees to 0 degrees
{
servo1.write(pos); // tell servo to go to position in variable 'pos'
delay(15); // waits 15ms for the servo to reach the position
}
}
You can find the library ServoTimer1.h here.
Extract the rar file and copy the whole ServoTimer1 folder into the Arduino directory \hardware\libraries
Update:
In the first line of the code "#include <>"
You have to type ServoTimer1.h between the <>.
This thing won't let me post it right because it assumes it's code for the blog.
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