How to control a servo
Fork of Program3_Servo by
Seeed_Arch_link_Servo
Setup
- Connect the Temperature sensor as well as the Servo to the Seeeduino-Arch-Link board, and then connect the board to you PC using the micro-USB cable.
- The board mounts as a mass-storage device (like a USB drive). Verify that you can see it (drive name will be MBED).
- Go to http://developer.mbed.org
- Create an ARM mbed account if you do not have one.
- On the top right corner, click the Compiler button.
An IDE should open. Congratulations!
On Windows: To see debug messages, install the serial driver.
Debug messages: We can talk to the board via a serial port, but you might need some software. Read this doc and install required software (like PuTTY or CoolTermon Windows).
Locally: If you like things locally, you can do so by exporting to a supported toolchain.
I very much recommend to just use the online IDE, as it makes it easier for us, but if you want to continue hacking in the future, this is a nice way.
Seeed_Arch_link_Servo
- Go back to the compiler browser window and click F5 to refresh the page.
- Click the Import button, then click "Click Here to import from URL"
- Paste the URL https://developer.mbed.org/teams/znrobotics/code/Seeed_Arch_link_Servo/
- Double click to open main.cpp
- Here we try to present you how to control the Servo
- Try to finish the code under ' YOUR CODE HERE : make code run between 0-1 only!' for challenge!
- Now press Compile
- A file downloads (Seeed_Arch_link_Servo.hex)
- Drag the file to the 'MBED' disk
- After flashing, hit the 'Reset' button to start the program.
- The servo will now move!
main.cpp@5:04e18a0d9dfb, 2016-05-28 (annotated)
- Committer:
- Maggie17
- Date:
- Sat May 28 09:19:26 2016 +0000
- Revision:
- 5:04e18a0d9dfb
- Parent:
- 4:0b1d0b30c936
modify
Who changed what in which revision?
User | Revision | Line number | New contents of line |
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Maggie17 | 2:6d90139fddb2 | 1 | #include "mbed.h" // this tells us to load mbed related functions |
Maggie17 | 2:6d90139fddb2 | 2 | #include "Servo.h" // library for the Servo |
simon | 1:40d2fd0b99e6 | 3 | |
Maggie17 | 3:67e0dff40e71 | 4 | Servo myservo(p10); |
simon | 1:40d2fd0b99e6 | 5 | |
Maggie17 | 2:6d90139fddb2 | 6 | // this code runs when the microcontroller starts up |
simon | 1:40d2fd0b99e6 | 7 | int main() { |
simon | 1:40d2fd0b99e6 | 8 | for(float p=0; p<1.0; p += 0.1) { |
mbedAustin | 4:0b1d0b30c936 | 9 | myservo = p; |
Maggie17 | 2:6d90139fddb2 | 10 | |
simon | 1:40d2fd0b99e6 | 11 | wait(0.2); |
Maggie17 | 5:04e18a0d9dfb | 12 | // YOUR CODE HERE : make code run between 0-1 only! |
simon | 1:40d2fd0b99e6 | 13 | } |
simon | 1:40d2fd0b99e6 | 14 | } |