how do i control my 2 servo motors?

Using Arduino General Electronics
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Currently I am working on a project which consists of two servo motors and two push buttons. Here is what I am trying to do, I want the 1st push button (input 9) to stop the motors from moving when pushed and then when I push it again they will go in a clockwise motion, I want this to repeat it self continuously. The 2nd push button(input8) will act as a bumper sensor(I am building a car robot) so the bumper sensor will be at the front of robot. When pushed I want the servos to move in an anti clockwise motion and eventually be able to turn left or right. But for the time being I just want it to go anticlockwise when the button is pressed. When pressed again I want it to go in a clockwise motion again. I have been working on some code but I just cant seem to get it working correctly, I am new to this so I was hoping could someone look at the code and tell me where I am going wrong?

#include <Servo.h>

Servo myservo; // create servo object to control a servo
Servo myservo2; // create servo object to control a second servo

int button1 = 9; // Upper CW Button (UCW)
int button2 = 8; // Upper CCW Button (UCCW)

void setup()
{
myservo.attach(3); // attaches the servo on pin 9 to the servo object
myservo2.attach(11); // attaches the servo on pin 10 to the servo object
pinMode (button1, INPUT);
pinMode (button2, INPUT);

}

void loop()
{
if (digitalRead(button1) == HIGH)
myservo.write(0);
else if (digitalRead(button1) == LOW)
myservo.write(90);
if (digitalRead(button1) == HIGH)
myservo2.write(0);
else if (digitalRead(button1) == LOW)
myservo2.write(90);
if (digitalRead(button2) == HIGH)
myservo2.write(0);
else if (digitalRead(button2) == LOW)
myservo2.write(90);
if (digitalRead(button2) == HIGH)
myservo.write(0);
else if (digitalRead(button2) == LOW)
myservo.write(90);
}

2

You have got your loop arranged so that your servos only move when a button is held down. From your description, what you really want is for a button press to toggle between moving and stopped. You need to detect a transition from not pressed to pressed and only then change the state of the motors. Search the programming forum for words like transition, debounce, prevbuttonstate, currbuttonstate; it should pull up some useful examples of using buttons in this way.

3

Servo toggle test code.

//zoomkat servo button toggle test 4-28-2012

#include <Servo.h>
int button = 5; //button pin, connect to ground to move servo
int press = 0;
Servo servo;
boolean toggle = true;

void setup()
{
  pinMode(button, INPUT); //arduino monitor pin state
  servo.attach(7); //pin for servo control signal
  digitalWrite(5, HIGH); //enable pullups to make pin high
}

void loop()
{
  press = digitalRead(button);
  if (press == LOW)
  {
    if(toggle)
    {
      servo.write(160);
      toggle = !toggle;
    }
    else
    {
      servo.write(20);
      toggle = !toggle;
    }
  }
  delay(500);  //delay for debounce
}
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thanks for the tips, I actually understand now about debouncing and what not ill try look at some examples and put it into my code!