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I recently purchased a servo https://www.sparkfun.com/products/10189 and am wondering how to write a code to start and stop the servo at certain points. Here is what I would like to do...

Using an arduino UNO:

when you power up the UNO the servo will find the "center" and stay there
when a simple pushbutton https://www.sparkfun.com/products/9190? is pushed once the servo would turn 90 degrees
when the button is pushed the second time it would rotate 90 degrees further (to the 180* point from center)
when the button is pushed the third time it would rotate 90 degreees further (to the 270* point from center)
when the button is pushed the forth time it would return back to the center position.



thanks for your help

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when you power up the UNO the servo will find the "center" and stay there

Without extra hardware, that is never going to happen.

Hint: it isn't a servo anymore, despite what the seller tells you.

I think, under UK law, you'd have a very strong case for a refund.

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Without extra hardware, that is never going to happen.

Hint: it isn't a servo anymore, despite what the seller tells you.

I think, under UK law, you'd have a very strong case for a refund.

So what you are saying is that I have the wrong type of "servo" for what I want to accomplish?

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So what you are saying is that I have the wrong type of "servo" for what I want to accomplish?

I don't know, I haven't seen your spec.

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http://www.sparkfun.com/datasheets/Robotics/SM23-33%20Servo%20_E.pdf

is this what you want to see?

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So what you are saying is that I have the wrong type of "servo" for what I want to accomplish?

Pick up the front of a bicycle. That front tire is a continuous rotation device, like your servo. Mark the "center point". Take a picture of where you marked. Then, we can talk about how to do the same thing with the not-a-servo that you have.

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is this what you want to see?

No, I want to see your spec

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the line i made runs perpendicular with the white plastic arm

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the line i made runs perpendicular with the white plastic arm

That's nice.

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just in case you haven't figured it out by now I'm a beginner so any advice would be appreciated!!

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You've been here more than a month - any details of what you want to achieve would be appreciated.

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It's a continuous rotation servo. There is no center point. There is no 0 degree mark, either. All such capabilities have been removed from that servo, to make it a continuous rotation servo. All that you can do with that "servo" is change the speed and direction that it rotates.

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thanks PaulS

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If uou need a servo that rotates more than 180 deg and is still a servo, then you might look at the sail winch servos.

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It's a continuous rotation servo. There is no center point. There is no 0 degree mark, either. All such capabilities have been removed from that servo, to make it a continuous rotation servo. All that you can do with that "servo" is change the speed and direction that it rotates.

Actually they do a disservice and are misleading even calling it a servo. It's an ex-servo, it no longer represents anything that a servo controlled motor would share with it. It should be called what it has become sense being modified:

It's a bidirectional variable speed geared motor drive that is controlled by a pwm pulse.

From a SparkFun customer:

"If this were a servo motor, it would take a set point and adjust its position to be at the corresponding location, using internal feedback. If this is a continuous rotation motor, it takes a set point and scales its speed depending on that set point, but there’s no closed loop control, so it’s not a “servo”. This device may very well be in a package typical of servos and may even have been a servo before someone broke the feedback loop, but it’s not a servo if it’s continuous rotation, open-loop control."

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