Unanswered Questions
110 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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PCA9685 - Hardware problem with diode?
I'm working on a project, where I need to run several high-torque servos. For that I bought come of these PCA9685 boards.
I hooked everything up with my arduino and connected an external 5V - max 3A ...
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Help to understand multiple PWM working together
I'm very new to arduino related stuff so this question might be really easy to answer.
I don't understand how multiple PWM outputs are supposed to work. Look at the pic.
In the first(1) case we are ...
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Multiple servos noise
I'm building an application that uses 20 servo motors, and i control then with an Arduino Mega. The servos are having some instability, to the point where they make small random swings. Im powering ...
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I am trying to control 4 servos with a joystick, but after a few seconds, they start spinning and don't stop until the power source is cut
Here's my code. I don't know if the issue is the power source though. I only have access to my computer for a power source.
#include <Servo.h>
Servo servo1;
Servo servo2;
Servo servo3;
Servo ...
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ESP & Servo not communicating well
I have a mystery I was unable to solve and would greatly appreciate it if anyone could shed some light on this.
I have a servo DSS-M15S 270 which I managed to run perfectly fine with Arduino Uno (code ...
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Simulink resets arduino
I am working on servo motors control through serial communication protocol, I am sending data from Simulink to arduino and vice versa, The problem I am getting is that once I open Simulink Servo ...
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Servo wont work with LED code!
I'm basically trying to combine my servo code and my LED code but whenever I add my servo code the LED refuses to turn on at all.
I am super new to arduino sorry if this doesn't make any sense!
Servo ...
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Servo starts spinning 360 degrees after a few minutes
I'm using my ESP8266 as a web server to tilt a camera with the servo Tower Pro Micro Servo 9G.
#include <Servo.h>
#include <ESP8266WiFi.h>
const char* ssid = "SSID";
const ...
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servo acting weirdly
I have bought two original TowerPro MG966R 360 degree continuos rotation Hi-torq digital servos.
Expected results :
90 deg -- no rotation
90 - 0 deg -- speeding up to one side
90 - 180 deg -- ...
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SG 90 servos randomly spinning
I started one project where i need 4 servos to control 4 grabbers jaws. i use STM32F103C8T6 with arduino IDE for programming it. The motor TZT Micro Servo 9g SG 90. First, I was playing with stepper ...
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How can I reset servo position?
When I do
myServo.write(0)
It isn't straight, I want it to be straight but it is at about a 45 degree angle anyone know how to reset the position with arduino to make other positions 0 and making ...
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This is a flood sensor. Moisture sensor and servo working together but it shows different errors
Sometimes the servo moves unnecessarily without moisture sensor giving out any readings.
Another problem is that the servo moves very slowly. Is there a way to counter this problem?
const int ...
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Serial Monitor Stops Working
I am using a DIY colour sensor (RGB LED and LDR) and a servo to make a skittles sorter. I am testing out just the colour detection now and printing the RGB values to serial. It worked fine until I ...
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Servo motor and the servotimer2
I posted this a few days ago
Servomotor and music shield
and now I moving my servo motor and my musicshield (seeduino musicshield v2.0) together with and Arduino uno, in my other post they told me to ...
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IR sensor not detecting light or dark sufaces
I wrote code for the vibrating motors to vibrate when an IR sensor detects a darker surface. I have 4 vibration motors for corresponding 4 IR sensors. My program is not able to read the values from ...