Assignment: Servo Motor: Actuation Assignment 2

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Assignment: Servo Motor: Actuation Assignment 2
Collaborators: agreiner

Description

The Binderclip Bug crawls around on kitchen tables. (Be sure to cover your muffin.) A pot controls the angle of its legs, and as the legs move, it shifts its weight from one side to the other.

Materials

Arduino board
breadboard
wires
pot
servo motor
large binder clip

Arduino code

/*
* Servo with Potentiometer control
* Theory and Practice of Tangible User Interfaces
* October 11 2007
*/

int servoPin = 7;      // Control pin for servo motor
int potPin   = 0;      // select the input pin for the potentiometer

int pulseWidth = 0;    // Amount to pulse the servo
long lastPulse = 0;    // the time in millisecs of the last pulse
int refreshTime = 20;  // the time in millisecs needed in between pulses
int val;               // variable used to store data from potentiometer

int minPulse = 500;   // minimum pulse width

void setup() {
pinMode(servoPin, OUTPUT);  // Set servo pin as an output pin
pulseWidth = minPulse;      // Set the motor position to the minimum
Serial.begin(9600);         // connect to the serial port
Serial.println("servo_serial_better ready");
}

void loop() {
val = analogRead(potPin);    // read the value from the sensor, between 0 - 1024

if (val > 0 && val <= 999 ) {
pulseWidth = val*2 + minPulse;  // convert angle to microseconds

Serial.print("moving servo to ");
Serial.println(pulseWidth,DEC);

}
updateServo();   // update servo position
}

// called every loop().
void updateServo() {
// pulse the servo again if the refresh time (20 ms) has passed:
if (millis() - lastPulse >= refreshTime) {
digitalWrite(servoPin, HIGH);   // Turn the motor on
delayMicroseconds(pulseWidth);  // Length of the pulse sets the motor position
digitalWrite(servoPin, LOW);    // Turn the motor off
lastPulse = millis();           // save the time of the last pulse
}
}