In this tutorial you are going to control the rotation of a servo with a potentiometer.
Arduino servo motor control with potentiometer.
This instructurable cane be used in combination with my 4 servos 2 joysticks instructurable to control a robotic arm.
Control the position of a rc hobby servo motor with your arduino and a potentiometer.
It could be applied for ex.
The example code below lets you control a servo motor with a potentiometer.
This can damage the arduino mg996 instant high torque.
Required hardware arduino board servo motor 10k ohm potentiometer jumper wires mini breadboard.
The potentiometer has three pins connect the outside pins to 5 v and gnd.
Because servo motors use feedback to determine the position of the shaft you can control that position very precisely.
Power ground and signal.
In this tutorial i will show arduino users how to control a continuous rotation servo or a normal servo.
One side pin of potentiometer is connected with the ground another side pin is connected with 5v supply and the middle pin is connected with the analog input pin of arduino a0.
The middle pin of the potentiometer is connected to the analog pin a0 of the arduino.
Servo motor with potentiometer arduino example code.
Analog input gets from the pot and according to this input the movement of servo change.
The power wire is typically red and should be connected to the 5v pin on the arduino or genuino board.
You can connect small servo motors directly to an arduino to control the shaft position very precisely.
I suggest you use external power to the servo.
As a result s ervo motors are used to control the position of objects rotate objects move legs arms or hands of robots move sensors etc.
6 1 controlling the position of the servo motor we will use an analog input to control the servo motor this will be helpfull if you decide to make something with a pan tilt platform.
Servo motors have three wires.
Control the position of the servo motor with the arduino and the potentiometer.
Sg90 mini rc servo motors can be used.