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Arduino Development Cookbook

You're reading from   Arduino Development Cookbook Over 50 hands-on recipes to quickly build and understand Arduino projects, from the simplest to the most extraordinary

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2015
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ISBN-13 9781783982943
Length 246 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Cornel M Amariei Cornel M Amariei
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Power on – Arduino Basics FREE CHAPTER 2. Blinking LEDs 3. Working with Buttons 4. Sensors 5. Motor Control 6. More Output Devices 7. Digital Communication with Arduino 8. Hacking A. Electronics – the Basics Index

Servo motor


Servo motors are great devices that can turn to a specified position. Usually, they have a servo arm that can turn 180 degrees. Using the Arduino, we can tell a servo to go to a specified position and it will go there. As simple as that!

Servo motors were first used in the Remote Control (RC) world, usually to control the steering of RC cars or the flaps on a RC plane. With time, they found their uses in robotics, automation, and of course, the Arduino world.

Here we will see how to connect a servo motor26 and then how to turn it to different positions.

The first motor I ever connected to an Arduino, seven years ago, was a Servo motor. Nostalgic moment over, back to work!

Getting ready

For this recipe, you will need the following ingredients:

  • An Arduino board connected to a computer via USB

  • A servo motor

  • Jumper wires

There are few big names in the servo motor world. Hiteh and Futaba are the leading RC servo manufacturers. Good places to buy them are Servocity, Sparkfun, and Hobbyking...

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