A servo is a type of motor which uses a feedback mechanism for precise control of speed and position.

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Powering servos with Arduino

I have an Arduino uno board, I want to build a pick & place bot and thus I need powering two servos, when I power them by computer they work as excepted but then I powered it with a battery, ...
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Sending data from Arduino UNO as a SOAP request

I have a servo motor on one end which can be turned ON and OFF with Web Service sending SOAP request. In the other end I have my Aurdino UNO with ESP8266.Currently, I can able to send HIGH or LOW ...
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How to make servo rotate for angle bigger than 180°

Connected servo motor (180°) to Arduino Uno R3. Currently I am using a servo motor which have rotation angle specified as 180°, but I have a requirement to rotate to certain angles greater that 180°. ...
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Designing a robotic arm using Arduino Uno

We are making a robotic arm using Arduino Uno board in which we are not able to decide which kind of motor to use. Which motor will be better if we want to lift weight up to 1kg using gripper at the ...
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Arduino Pro Mini and Electronic Speed Controller (ESC)

I want to send servo signal to ESC and Servo with my 3.3V Arduino Pro Mini. Can the ESC/Servo read 3.3V signal from Arduino Pro Mini? Or do I need to make some level shifter to make 5V signal?
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How to merge two arduino sketches, one for relay's and one for Servo motor?

Recently I uploaded individual codes for relay's and Servo motor seperately, it all worked fine. But when I combined these two codes and dumped in to the loop there is a delay in functioning of the ...
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Can the servo pulse width range be changed?

I recently found that standard servos only rotate 90deg total rotation for a pulse width range of 1-2 usec. To rotate 180deg total rotation they need a .5-2.5 usec pulse range. The arduino is ...
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Arduino code for continuous rotation for 3 servos with Bluetooth

This code is working, any ideas? Please check the code - Bluetooth is connecting but the servo motors are not varying with respect to the app sliders. #include <SoftwareSerial.h> #include ...
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How to use potentiometer on one Arduino to control servo on another Arduino via WiFi?

I want to connect a potentiometer on one Arduino (master side) and send the readings to another Arduino (client side) to run a servo motor. The communication between the two Arduinos should be via ...
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Running Steppers with servo

I'm doing a project which is automatic box carrier. It will hold a box from a location and move it next to it. Kind of cnc work. Locations are fixed it just has to run the orders. I want to send an ...
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Servo control using DIP switch

I am pretty new to Arduino and programming too. I want to sweep a servo using DIP switch. At the moment, I use 4 position DIP switch. To each of the switches, I want to set the number of times the ...
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Tower Pro MG996R 180° high torque servo controlling using Arduino

We are trying to control a robotic arm using the Tower Pro MG 996R 180° high torque servo. Firstly we tried to power the servo from Arduino's default 5V, but it didn't work, then we power it from an ...
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Why can't most servos rotate more than around 180°

I was looking how a servomotor works. I realized that a standard servo can only turn up to 180°, but I didn't understand why. Is it because of the potentiometer?
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How do I calibrate an ESC after connecting it to an Arduino?

I'm trying to connect an Arduino to an Electronic Speed Control and failing horribly. I'll explain what I've done so far, and then I'll explain the problem. Before we get there, here's the list of ...
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Do external battery packs need to connect to ground on the arduino?

I am going to be controlling 2 servo motors with an arduino. I will use an external battery pack for power. Do I need to connect the negative of the battery to ground on the arduino? If I just use the ...
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Trinket error code

I am trying to get the Trinket to run a simple servo, but keep getting an error code. This is the error message: exit status 1 Error compiling. I got the code from the Trinket Library at Adafruit ...
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Get servo to travel full length

Recently we purchased servos for use in an Arduino and began testing with servos. It turned out that the uSec for the servos differed from the online documentation and we had to find the min and maxes ...
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Code to control servo with shield

I recently bought an Arduino MEGA2560 and a SainSmart InstaBots Robot Controller Shield for Arduino MEGA2560 R3 Robot Arm Control. I understand how to control a servo in the method described in ...
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Change Servo Speed With RedBearLabs BLE Shield

I recently got the RedBearLabs BLE shield to use it to control two high spped continuous rotation servos. I have the BLE example sketch loaded and the ios controller app works. The problem is that the ...
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Do I have a faulty arduino uno, or have I found an Arduino bug?

Lately, we got an old arduino uno donated from a friend and have been trying to get it to work with servos. We have been having very perplexing results. We have tried many different "stock" code and ...
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21 Servo on Mega?

I want to use 21 servo (SG5010) motors using Mega board. Is it possible to do this? A possibility is all the servos will be operating at the same time, with average load of ~3.5 KG, and each using ...
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Can I power a 9g servo from an arduino nano with USB power only?

I want to run a 9g servo off of the pins from an arduino nano board, using only the 5v USB connection. The servo specifically is a SG90, which I have measured a stall current of ~250mA - I don't ...
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afmotor saying “servo does not name a type”

I have made a sumobot with an arduino, an afmotor shield and a 4-pin ping sensor when I upload my code it keeps giving me this error: "'Servo' does not name a type" here is my code.
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Automatic/manual door lock with servo [closed]

I'm building an automatic door lock, which is moved by a servo ( this one ). However, I want to still make it possible to open the lock manually, but it's not possible if the servo is attached to the ...
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Why does my Arduino freezes when i turn a servo

I have a Servo Motor and an Arduino Uno. I used the Arduino to run a servo motor. The code was very simple. It was to just Turn it 90 Deg Anti-Clockwise when a switch is pressed and Turn back to its ...
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Could you tell me what is wrong with this Arduino code?

void fn( int pin, int pos) { Servo temp; temp.attach(pin); temp.write(pos); delay(15); temp.detach(); } void loop() { int pos = 0 ; for (pos = 0; pos <= 180; pos += ...
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Arduino Servo Free Rotation

I have a project where I use 22 servos. I attach all 22 of the servos in the setup and in the loop, I use myservo.write() command to make a particular servo move to a particular position. The ...
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Arduino + MG996R servo

I have a problem with my TowerPro servo. When I connect it to my Arduino board it starts to rotate from ~10° to ~170° itself. It doesn't respond to any button interrupt. When I plug in another servo ...
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Making Servo Motor Automatically Move Based on Input

sorry if I sound incompetent, but I know nothing about coding. I have a group project where I must sort various balls into different tracks. The final issue I have is that I must use an arduino for ...
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Cannot control servos through 32-servo-controller on Aurduino Duamilanove

I have servo (TowerPro sg90) connected to 32 servo controller (this one) through UART interface (RX-TX, GND-GND). Seller provide documentation how to connect and control my servos, but it isn't work. ...
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Problem up loading to board

I'm a newbee to Arduino programming and hoping someone can help me with this. These are the errors when uploading the proceeding sketch. Thanks in advance! avrdude: stk500_rcv() : programmer is not ...
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Multiple servos noise

I'm building an application that uses 20 servo motors, and i control then with an Arduino Mega. The servos are having some instability, to the point where they make small random swings. Im powering ...
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Brushless motor “jiggles”

When I run my code, the ESC makes some noises, different on the high pulse and low pulse, then it begins to jiggle for a bit when it gets to the loop. Here is the code: #include <Servo.h> ...
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A question about Continuous Rotation Servo and Arduino

We have this project that uses a Continuous Rotation Servo and we have a slight problem controlling it. We're planning to attach a Rack Gear to the Servo to slide a stainless steel to the right, and ...
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Controlling Servo Motors with push button. Problem though

So I have this setup where I have and Arduino Uno, a mini Servo Motor, and a Push Button. I use a single Push button to control the Servo Motor to go to one position, then push it again to go back. It ...
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Need help converting a processing sketch for a robot arm with servo shield

I'm currently building a robotic arm. I'm using an Adafruit servo shield, 7 servos, Arduino uno, and a 5V 10A power supply. I found a program that controls the arm with mouse movement using a ...
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Help choosing servo motor for Arduino crane

I'm building an automated Arduino crane where the base material is PVC pipes. The arm consists of the picking mechanism and other sensors, so the total arm might come to about 2-3 Kg (I haven't built ...
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Lego Technic Servo Motor - 9V PWM

I want to control Lego Technic Servo Motor 88004. The way it works is - Lego has a 4 cable connector. Two of them supply power (+9V & GND) and the other are optionally +9V and they are called C1 ...
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Power Supply for 30 Servos

I am now constructing something with 30 servos (each one will control an individual joint separately, so I guess I can't get away from this), how can I determine how much current do I need, I have a ...
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Parallel servo control?

I have an Arduino Nano & am success fully controlling 4 servos from it but it then occurred to me that I am controlling these in a serial manner, ie I set 1 position then the next then the ...
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Powering multiple servos on external battery

I am working on a project with my school's 3D Printing Club where we are making a humanoid robot and I am attempting to wire the arm at the moment, and program the hands to translate text to sign ...
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Servos and ultrasonic at the same time

So recently I started making a sonar out of ultrasonic HC-SR04 sensor and servo motor. The idea was to slowly rotate servo 180 degrees while measuring distance. Soon after I noticed that regular ...
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Wrong calculation UNO

I've a joystick and a servo connected to my UNO, but for some reason my calculations keep on being wrong? I'm trying to calculate how the rotation should be of my servo (Tower Pro 9g, max value of 180 ...
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Arduino connected servo takes double the time to start from its initial position

I am a newbie on Arduino world, I have written a small piece of code which will move the servo motor every 8sec or 10min or 1hr with increment of 15° angle. At the initial setup function I have ...
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Making servo spin and able to detect angle

After researching other posts I can see how to make a servo spin continually and remove the ability to set to a specific angle. What I'm trying to do is make a small project that has a spinning ...
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Smart Servo Shield: How to upload code to AtMega8

I recently bought a Smart Servo Shield controller from DFrobot to use with my new AX-12A Dynamixel servos. The shield is attached to an Arduino Uno. The shield itself works fine, but it does not ...
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Servo powering from external power HELP

I have a Towerpro mg995 servo motor. I hooked it up with my Arduino, with the power supply being external. I tried 5V, but the servo behaves nothing like the code, which is just a simple sweeping ...
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Control servo motors with buttons and via web application

I have this assignment and I have been tinkering a long time about it. I need to make a simulation of a parking lot where servos would represent the ramps. I will be using 2 Arduinos running the same ...
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Arduino Mega with two Arduino Unos as slaves via I2C?

Good morning! This is my first post here, and my first time diving into the world of microcontrollers. Bear with me, as I describe this theoretical project. I've got an Arduino Mega 2560, two ...
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'Simple' problem. Delay not working?

Servo goes to one end, and immediately travels back without a 2s delay inbetween. After it travels back there is a 2s delay before it loops. Why isn't there a 2s delay before the travel back? Servo ...