In my R2 build I put the camera with a 180 servo that controls the up and down in the radar eye. I'm using a continuous spin servo to spin the dome and would like the camera to control that servo for side to side tracking, but in settings it appears that it has setup for a 180 degree servo. I tried the min/max with the continuous spin servo but it caused it to spin non stop in either direction depending on if I changed the min or max. Is there a way in scripting to control the continuous spin
servo for tracking?
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Follow the 4 th link to learn more about continuous servo.
There are other hardware solutions like:
1) add a potentiometer or an absolute encoder
2) use a sail winch servo(multi turn not a continuous servo)
3) continuos servo with position feedback
All the above solutions will require extra add ons some will require an additional microcontroller and some C programming skills
A simple solution is multiple trigger switches similar to a ending stop switch so you can know the position when the switch is triggered
Find out how a servo works here: http://www.ez-robot.com/Tutorials/Lesson/48?courseId=4
You'll see reference to winch servos. That's a good servo for your use because it has 1,000 degrees rotation or something. Check it out in that above link.
I will have to get another one once I finish a couple of other projects on the droid, I will come back to this and give that a go!
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