Arduino Servo Control

The Software
           There are two main portions of code that you'll see explained and in detail below:
    -Initialization
    -Servo Control


           The first part of the code shows you how to initialize the servo and all our variables, this is important if you want to use more than 1 servo you need to declare that. We'll be using the Arduino Servo library for all out control to make things as easy as possible.

Initialization

#include <Servo.h>
 
Servo myservo;  // create servo object to control a servo 
                // a maximum of eight servo objects can be created 
 
void setup() 
{ 
  myservo.attach(0);  // attaches the servo on pin 0 to the servo object 
  delay(5000);
} 
..
...

           The last portion of the code is where we actually tell the servo where to move using the write function of the Arduino's Servo library.

Main Loop

...
..
void loop() 
{

    //Move To 0 Degrees
    myservo.write(10);
    delay(5000);

    //Move To 45 Degrees
    myservo.write(45);
    delay(5000);
    
    //Move To 90 Degrees
    myservo.write(90);
    delay(5000);
    
    //Move To 135 Degrees
    myservo.write(135);
    delay(5000);    
    
    //Move To 180 Degrees
    myservo.write(170);
    delay(5000);    
    
    //Move To 135 Degrees
    myservo.write(135);
    delay(5000);

    //Move To 90 Degrees
    myservo.write(90);
    delay(5000);

    //Move To 45 Degrees
    myservo.write(45);
    delay(5000);    

} 

           So, hopefully the software seen above makes sense and is not too far over your head. The Arduino library makes it much easier to understand how to control a servo motor compared to other microcontroller platforms that don't have a dedicated Servo Control library, now let's test this system out!