Project 05 Mood Cue: Servo and Pot not working as expected

Hardware The Arduino Starter Kit
1

Hey guys, the issue here is that my servo only seems to turn by itself very little, and is not affected by the potentiometer at all. I can't seem to find what I'm doing wrong.

Here is my code:

#include <Servo.h>
Servo myServo; 
int const potPin = A0;
int potVal;
int angle;

void setup() {
  myServo.attach(9);
  Serial.begin(9600);

}

void loop() {
  // put your main code here, to run repeatedly:
  potVal = analogRead(potPin);
  Serial.print("potVal: ");
  Serial.print(potVal);
  angle =  map(potVal, 0, 1023, 0, 179);
  Serial.print(", angle: ");
  Serial.println(angle);
  myServo.write(angle);
  delay(15);
}

Here is what the readings look like:
angle: 62
potVal: 360, angle: 62
potVal: 376, angle: 65
potVal: 360, angle: 62
potVal: 360, angle: 62
potVal: 359, angle: 62
potVal: 359, angle: 62
potVal: 359, angle: 62
potVal: 359, angle: 62
potVal: 358, angle: 62
potVal: 358, angle: 62
potVal: 358, angle: 62
potVal: 358, angle: 62
potVal: 358, angle: 62
potVal: 357, angle: 62
potVal: 357, angle: 62
potVal: 357, angle: 62
potVal: 356, angle: 62
potVal: 356, angle: 62
potVal: 356, angle: 62
potVal: 356, angle: 62
potVal: 356, angle: 62
potVal: 356, angle: 62
potVal: 356, angle: 62
potVal: 355, angle: 62
potVal: 355, angle: 62
potVal: 355, angle: 62
potVal: 355, angle: 62
potVal: 355, angle: 62
potVal: 355, angle: 62
potVal: 354, angle: 61
potVal: 353, angle: 61
potVal: 354, angle: 61
potVal: 354, angle: 61
potVal: 354, angle: 61
potVal: 353, angle: 61
potVal: 353, angle: 61
potVal: 353, angle: 61
potVal: 353, angle: 61
potVal: 352, angle: 61
potVal: 352, angle: 61
potVal: 352, angle: 61
potVal: 352, angle: 61

It just seems to barely turn and isn't affected by the potentiometer at all

Here is a picture of my circuit:

Circuit Image

Thanks for the help

2

Remove the capacitor on the pot ? Is it a 10k pot

3

I have no idea. All the videos I have watched for this project showed a white pot. I think the reason this may not be working is that I'm using the wrong pot. Would that be the case?

4

The colour of the pot does not matter but the value of the pot and they type DOES.

There are two types of pot LINEAR and TAPER. These give different responses over the turning range of the pot.

There are multiple sizes and it is usually either written on or coded on in some form eg 1K 5K 10K or 101, 104 or some other form of number that you can look up on google quite easily.

There are also some other variations such as wirewound and multiturn but for the most part you would concern yourself with the actual value.

5

What I noticed on my servo (from starter kit) is that when it turns into 90 degrees the value stored in "angle" variable is only 80. If I turn it all the way to 179 it tries to go over its final position. I realized that it maps values from 0 to 159 to 0 degree to 179 degrees.
This might be helpful to others. Just map your values instead of from 0 to 159 (instead of 0 to 179).