Moving a Servo
The first and most important action of any robot is moving a limb with a servo. Even if your robot is not complete, it's a good idea to practice moving a servo with ARC to become familiar with how easy it is. Because it is easy to move servos with ARC, you can now focus on the creative aspect of the robot. This tutorial will add a servo robot skill, configure the servo robot skill, and move a servo.
Requirements
- Connected to an EZB
- Servo connected to the EZB
Robot Skills Used
The following robot skills are used in this tutorial. Click any of these to further read the manuals for the robot skills.
Quick Tutorial
Press the Project button from the top menu, and select Add Robot Skill.
The Robot Skills window will display. Navigate to the Servo tab and select Horizontal Servo.
Now the Horizontal Servo robot skill is visible in your project. Press the Config button on the Horizontal robot skill.
Select the Servo Port that your servo is connected to on the EZB.
Either drag the Min and Max values to specify the range, or right-click and enter the range with the keyboard. By default, the global range in ARC is between 1-180. You can alter this global value for high precision servos in the ARC settings menu.
Press SAVE on the config window to save the settings.
Click the mouse on the horizontal robot skill servo position display, and drag LEFT and RIGHT. Watch as the servo moves.
This is only the beginning...
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