Assignment: Servo Motor: Actuation Assignment 2

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Description:

I made a tripod crawler out of dowels. It ended up pretty heavy and mostly made out of tape, but does crawl (slowly) in a forward-ish direction.

Materials:

Servo Motor

Arduino Board

Wooden Dowels

Quarters (ballast)

Piece of cardstock

Piece of rubber band

Tape, lots and lots of tape

Arduino Code:

// Modified Sweep

// I used the servo library
// by Ian McDowell

#include <Servo.h>

Servo myservo;  // create servo object to control a servo
// a maximum of eight servo objects can be created

int pos = 0;    // variable to store the servo position
int potPin = 0;
int val;
void setup()
{
myservo.attach(7);  // attaches the servo on pin 9 to the servo object
}

void loop()
{
val = analogRead(potPin); //read the pot pin
val = val/2;
myservo.write(0);
delay(1200-val);
myservo.write(180);
delay(1200-val);
}

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