hy @ all,
i´m just a arduino beginner on his first steps...after solving a few problems with my arduino i wanted to build a small "robot".
For that i wanted to use an old RC-Toy Tank, i want to use a few parts of it and an arduino plus a few servos to build my little robot.
The RC Tank was disassembled so that we get the driving unit and all the electronic parts. We don´t change anything in the driving section so that it can be operated from the Remote of the RC Tank (so that our robot can drive forward backward etc), the Tank Remote has another channel to control the upper part with the gun of the tank. Originally the Tank could rotate it´s upper part and fire small airsoft bullets. We disconnected the small dc motor which fires the bullets to get its signal. Then we connected the + to digital pin2 and - to ground. (tryed it before with a switch on pin2 and 5V+ and a resistor connected to ground and it worked fine). We hoped that we can get this signal to controll a few movements of the servos which are connected to the arduino. (everytime pin2 gets high is counted and on every count something happens)
The Servos are connected to digital pin 9-11, but only one of them was attached for the test today and they got their own power source.
now to my problem....
with a button connected to pin2 everything works fine....everytime i press the button my servo moves to the next position....but when i connect the r/c electronic to my arduino i only press the button of the r/c remote 1 time and the complete program cycles through, over and over again.
I already tested the r/c electronics with a led connected to the wires which go to the arduino and the result is that the led only turns on as long as i press the button...so maybe there is an error in my code ???
#include <Servo.h>
const int buttonPin = 2;
Servo myservo; // create servo object to control a servo
Servo arml;
Servo armr;
int buttonPushCounter = 0; // counter for the number of button presses
int buttonState = 0; // current state of the button
int lastButtonState = 0; // previous state of the button
int pos = 0; // variable to store the servo positions
void setup() { // initialize serial communication:
Serial.begin(9600);
myservo.attach(9); // attaches the servo on pin 8 to the servo object
myservo.write(0); // set servo to zero
arml.attach(10);
armr.attach(11);
arml.write(0);
armr.write(0);
pinMode(buttonPin, INPUT); // initialize the button pin as a input
}
void loop() {
buttonState = digitalRead(buttonPin); // read the pushbutton input pin
if (buttonState != lastButtonState) { // compare buttonState to previous state
if (buttonState == 1) { // if the current state is 1 then the button
// went from off to on:
buttonPushCounter++;
Serial.println("on");
Serial.print("number of button pushes: ");
Serial.println(buttonPushCounter, DEC);
// do something different depending on the
// range value:
switch (buttonPushCounter) {
case 1: // If the button count is at 1
Serial.println("1"); // print 1
myservo.write(180); // tell servo to go to position 'pos'
delay(500); // waits 0.5s for the servo to reach the position
arml.write(35);
delay(500);
armr.write(35);
delay(500);
break;
case 2: // If the button count is at 2
Serial.println("2"); // print 2
myservo.write(90); // tell servo to go to position 'pos'
delay(500); // waits 0.5s for the servo to reach the position
arml.write(60);
delay(500);
armr.write(60);
delay(500);
break;
case 3: //if the button count is at 3
Serial.println("3");
myservo.write(0); // tell servo to go to position 'pos'
delay(500); // waits 0.5s for the servo to reach the position
arml.write(45);
delay(500);
armr.write(45);
delay(500);
break;
case 4: // if the button count is 4
Serial.println("4");
myservo.write(144); // tell servo to go to position 'pos'
delay(500); // waits 0.5s for the servo to reach the position
arml.write(75);
delay(500);
armr.write(75);
delay(500);
break;
case 5: //if the button count is 5
Serial.println("5");
myservo.write(180); // tell servo to go to position 'pos'
delay(500); // waits 0.5s for the servo to reach the position
arml.write(90);
delay(500);
armr.write(90);
delay(500);
break;
case 6: //if the button count is 6
Serial.println("6");
// reset everything.
// set servo to zero
myservo.write(0); // tell servo to go to position '0'
delay(1000); // waits 1 second for the servo to reach the position
arml.write(0);
delay(500);
armr.write(0);
delay(500);
// reset the push button count to 0
buttonPushCounter = 0 ;// Now everything is set back to the way we started.
break;
}
}
}
}
