Showing posts with label motor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label motor. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 19, 2014

What is a servo motor (servo)

Servo motor is a motor, which we control by telling it at what angle it should be rotated and servo is trying to maintain that position.



How to work with it

Servo has 3 outputs: Power, Ground and Data.
On Data wire we apply PWM signal with different duty cycle, to control our motor.

     

Generally PWM frequency is 50 Hz (period = 20 ms), minimum impulse width is 1 ms (0°) and maximum is 2 ms (180°).
There are a variety of different servos, so you still need to read datasheet, but this information will help you to start.

Now i will write about their structure, you don't need to know what is inside of them to use them.

Friday, August 15, 2014

Servomotors practise, Servo Motor Control using AVR ATmega8

I had bought some chinese servomotors and decided to make a laser toy for my cat.