Servo Motor Control using Arduino

Following post will explain Servo motor control using Arduino UNO 3.

Servo motors have three wires: power, ground, and signal. The power wire is typically red, and should be connected to the 5V pin on the Arduino board. The ground wire is typically black or brown and should be connected to a ground pin on the board. The signal pin is typically yellow or orange and should be connected to pin 9 on the board.

The potentiometer should be wired so that its two outer pins are connected to power (+5V) and ground, and its middle pin is connected to analog input 0 on the board.

Figure 1 – Schematic Diagram

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Figure 2- Circuit Diagram

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Complie and upload the following code.

#include <Servo.h>
Servo myservo;  // create servo object to control a servo
int potpin = 0;  // analog pin used to connect the potentiometer
int val;    // variable to read the value from the analog pin

void setup() {
  myservo.attach(9);  
// attaches the servo on pin 9 to the servo object
}

void loop() {
 val = analogRead(potpin);   
 // reads the value of the   potentiometer (value between 0 and 1023)
 val = map(val, 0, 1023, 0, 180); 
 // scale it to use it with the  
 servo (value between 0 and 180)
 myservo.write(val); 
// sets the servo position   according to the scaled value
 delay(15);   
// waits for the servo to get there
}

Next we will see how to measure temperature using DS18B20.

 

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