Thank you winstn60,

Thanks for the response. Yes, the utilities drop down menu where it says hardware status led on/off works when I select off the white led goes off, and on the white led is lit on the EZ-B. The servo I am testing on digital slot DO has the black wire facing the outside of board. I currently have ARC version 11 installed (I tried cross referencing here on the release notes but it only has release dates but not the version number). Is there another version? I do not know why it is not working when I test the servo after configuring. Is there any other suggestion? Am I missing something?

Again thanks for the help,

Leo

Hey there Baldeagle!

The servo is connected backward. The pins are labelled GND, +5, Signal from inside to out. The balck wire will be GND and should be facing inside of the board.

OK now thats embarrassing It works great !! I'll be honest I automatically assumed the ground was to the outside of the board because of many servo controllers I have used in the past. My bad, never assume. I can't wait to dig deeper into this board and I'm sure I will have many questions throughout my build.

Thank you,

Leo

At least nothing got fried (save for your ego) when you plugged the servos in wrong. I did the same thing with my first Pololu dual motor driver and it fried both the logic and the driver chips in about 2 seconds flat - yes, as in big puff of smoke. It probably would have been ok had I been using the EZ-B for power (5V) but I was using an external 12V supply.

Whenever I do something stupid like that I always think of my brother-in-law's motto (he's a carpenter): "measure twice, cut once"...

I have fried one of my ADC channels on my EZ-B board by connecting it straight to the supply battery!! not clever. Still I have loads more left to play with

A mechanics motto "tighten the nut until it snaps and then back it off half a turn"

Ouch on frying your EZ-B. The EZ-B can have separate power for servo's correct?

I have a logitech joystick that I was configuring and must say I am really impressed on how easy it is to configure the joystick buttons in ARC however I would like to go wireless and use a PS3 bluetooth game remote for controlling the EZ-B.

Does anyone know how it can be done? Can the PS3 bluetooth game remote work with EZ-B? If so what would be the necessary steps? Do I have to download additional programs?

As always thanks for the help

Well I only fried one channel everything else works ok

I use a PS3 joystick but not via bluetooth. The drivers to use the PS3 Joystick with a PC with a cable were released recently on the net but I haven't seen a bluetooth set of drivers as yet

There are other Bluetooth/wireless joysticks you can use

For under $15 this little guy works great for me: Wireless Cordless Blue LED PC Gamepad Shock Controller

I like the clear plastic shell but I'll most likely be pulling out all the bright blue LEDs at some point - they're an annoying waste of battery power...