Help with project for school

Using Arduino Project Guidance
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Hello,

Recently purchased a Inventors Kit for a school project and was hoping to get a servo to respond to a mouse moving up and down the x axis without going beyond the 180 range of the toy servo. I was able to run the servo from the beginners guide and also was able to get it to work based off of a mouses on screen movements. Unfortunately the screen is not going to be visible during use so I need it to not be limited to a area I cant blindly stay in. Any suggestions for other tutorials or project s floating around would be fantastic.

Thank you for your time.

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to clarify the second project with the mouse controlled servo was one I found online. My coding skill is not impressive

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It would be useful to see your work so far, but in its absence:

http://arduino.cc/en/Reference/Map

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// Use the included processing code serial library
import processing.serial.*;

int gx = 15;
int gy = 35;
int spos=90;

float leftColor = 0.0;
float rightColor = 0.0;
Serial port; // The serial port

void setup()
{
size(720, 720);
colorMode(RGB, 1.0);
noStroke();
rectMode(CENTER);
frameRate(100);

println(Serial.list()); // List COM-ports

//select second com-port from the list
port = new Serial(this, Serial.list()[1], 19200);
}

void draw()
{
background(0.0);
update(mouseX);
fill(mouseX/4);
rect(150, 320, gx2, gx2);
fill(180 - (mouseX/4));
rect(450, 320, gy2, gy2);
}

void update(int x)
{
//Calculate servo postion from mouseX
spos= x/4;

//Output the servo position ( from 0 to 180)
port.write("s"+spos);

// Just some graphics
leftColor = -0.002 * x/2 + 0.06;
rightColor = 0.002 * x/2 + 0.06;

gx = x/2;
gy = 100-x/2;

}

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This is the code I was using from the online tutorial. From your post's I've gather I should be assigning a set of high and low's somewhere. I can see were the grey note is explaining that section of the code but I don't see how it is controlling it

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It works but it sounds like it is pushing the servo beyond its limit

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// Use the included processing code serial library
import processing.serial.*;

int gx = 1;
int gy = 1;
int spos=90;

Serial port; // The serial port

void setup()
{
size(1080, 1080);

frameRate(100);

println(Serial.list()); // List COM-ports

//select second com-port from the list
port = new Serial(this, Serial.list()[1], 19200);
}

void draw()
{
background(0.0);
update(mouseY);

}

void update(int x)
{
//Calculate servo postion from mouseX
spos= x/6;

//Output the servo position ( from 0 to 180)
port.write("s"+spos);

gx = x;
gy = x;

}

I was able to cut out things I learned I didn't need and switch it to the Y axis as I was hoping to do. I resized it to my screens resolution and changed the division so I am getting 180 degree. I just cant figure out how to add an exception to stop it when it gets to the top of the screen. The servo properly stops at the bottom but I need it to cut out when it reaches the top of the block also, other wise it will burn it out.

Here is the tutorial I am going from

http://arduino.cc/playground/Learning/SingleServoExample