Hardware Design
There isn't really much hardware design necessary for this project. We're just wiring up 3 connections from the hobby servo to the Arduino UNO.
Connecting The Servo
To connect the servo to the arduino I took 3 standard breadboard wires and plugged them into my hobby servo's connector. Notice that the Signal line on my servo's connector is blue and not yellow. Different hobby servo manufacturers use different colors to represent the Signal wire of a hobby servo, but the power and ground wires are always RED and BLACK.
After getting those breadboard wires into the hobby servo connector, connect them to the three spots on the Arduino UNO. Power +5v, Ground GND and Digital Pin 0 (or a digital pin of your choice).
Here you can see my final setup of the hardware, nothing overly complicated, just servo, battery pack and Arduino UNO.
Now that the hardware is complete, let's take a look at the software side of things so that we can get the Arduino programmed and ready to control the servo.
There isn't really much hardware design necessary for this project. We're just wiring up 3 connections from the hobby servo to the Arduino UNO.
Connecting The Servo
To connect the servo to the arduino I took 3 standard breadboard wires and plugged them into my hobby servo's connector. Notice that the Signal line on my servo's connector is blue and not yellow. Different hobby servo manufacturers use different colors to represent the Signal wire of a hobby servo, but the power and ground wires are always RED and BLACK.
After getting those breadboard wires into the hobby servo connector, connect them to the three spots on the Arduino UNO. Power +5v, Ground GND and Digital Pin 0 (or a digital pin of your choice).
Here you can see my final setup of the hardware, nothing overly complicated, just servo, battery pack and Arduino UNO.
Now that the hardware is complete, let's take a look at the software side of things so that we can get the Arduino programmed and ready to control the servo.