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[Reply #75 on:]

So I tried to do sweep with my Uno, and it decided that it does not want to work anymore, so now I have to do a completely different science project.

[Reply #76 on:]

I also have an extra that I haven't touched at all and that isn't working either.

[Reply #77 on:]

Aw... Sorry to hear that. Don't drop Arduino now you've picked it up though...

[Reply #78 on:]

Nevermind. It was a false alarm. 

[Reply #79 on:]

However, one of them did die on me. Whenever I plug the USB in, the green LED turns on and then immediately turns off. 

[Reply #80 on:]

The led on the servo, on the computer or on the Arduino? If it's on the Arduino, there's a short circuit and you must be very careful or you might destroy your Arduino.

[Reply #81 on:]

The Arduino.

[Reply #82 on:]

The green led? YOu mean the TX and RX leds?

[Reply #83 on:]

Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. It started working again though.

[Reply #84 on:]

The TX and RX leds only flash when your uploading a sketch.

[Reply #85 on:]

Woops. I actually meant the ON LED. 

[Reply #86 on:]

You must be careful when that happens. It means there's a short circuit somewhere.

[Reply #87 on:]

This is getting out of hand... I'm doing everything it says in this tutorial, (http://rcarduino.blogspot.com/2012/04/servo-problems-with-arduino-part-1.html) and it still isn't working... I have to have this thing done by February 4th, and this is worth a TON of points, so if it doesn't get done, my grade will suffer...

[Reply #88 on:]

Wait a second... How do I add a servo? Here's the line of code.

  // attach the servos
  for(int nServo = 0;nServo < CONNECTED_SERVOS;nServo++)
  {
    myServos[nServo].attach(SERVO_TO_PIN(nServo));
  }

[Reply #89 on:]

At the top of DuaneB's code it says this...

Code:

#include <Servo.h>
// Sample sketch for driving 12 Servos from an Arduino UNO, servos are attached to digital pins 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13

#define CONNECTED_SERVOS 12

It sweeps a whole load of servos on those pins....

So to attach servos to the board, you control them by putting their yellow / orange wires into those pins.

(The #define CONNECTED_SERVOS 12 tells it there are 12 and you could reduce that number I guess to just have however servos you have)

This part:

 

Code:

// attach the servos
  for(int nServo = 0;nServo < CONNECTED_SERVOS;nServo++)
  {
    myServos[nServo].attach(SERVO_TO_PIN(nServo));
  }

... uses the value of "CONNECTED_SERVOS" which is 12 if you didn't alter it at the top as the upper limit of a counter in a loop and runs the "attach" line as many times as you have servos to as many pins as there are servos.

This is an automated way of doing what I showed you a few posts back where I had something like myservo.attach and anotherservo.attach. The myServos[nServo] in Duane's code is a way of automating say myServos5 and myServos9 or whatever where nServo is a variable instead of hardcoding the same line a stack of times each with a different number.