Adafruit 16 Servo Shield

Connection Type

USB

Number of servos

Audio Support

Camera Support

You want to make a cool Arduino robot with ARC? Maybe a hexapod walker, or a piece of art with a lot of moving parts. This is Adafruit's popular PWM/Servo Breakout that works with any Arduino that uses shields: Uno, Leo, Mega, or ADK.

We recommend using the Uno, because it is compact and combined with this shield, provides a ton of I/O. If you require more than 16 servos, we also recommend the EZ-Robot EZ-B v4.

The UNO can be programmed with the EZB firmware for a variety of capabilities when connected to ARC. The tutorial to program the EZB firmware can be found HERE. This hardware was added to ARC in this beta release and newer.

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petrella56

Canada

#1 Sep 2020 — Edited Sep 2020

Hi just wanted to know if there was any support for using this servo controller with raspberry pi and an Arduino

DJ Sures

PRO

Synthiam

#2 Sep 2020

Install ARC on a windows pc. Install the ezb firmware on this servo controller and connect to it. The instructions are above

EzAng

PRO

USA

#3 Feb 21 — Edited Feb 22

here it is with the Arduino with the PCA9685

Downloaded Mickeys andDJ's firmware

modified their code, added Adafruit_PWMServoDriver pca9685 = Adafruit_PWMServoDriver(0x40);

in setup added:

// Initialize PCA9685
pca9685.begin();

// Set PWM Frequency to 50Hz
pca9685.setPWMFreq(50);

tried 3v and 5v

:-)
works!