
Adafruit 16 Servo Shield
Connection Type
USB
Number of servos
16
Audio Support
No
Camera Support
No
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.
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!