adafruit coding issue

[Philr]

Hi,
I'm new on here. Ive recently decided to throw myself in the deep end a little bit and i purchased a hexapod kit off eBay, some servos and 2x Adafruit servo drivers (https://www.adafruit.com/products/81)

Ive managed to get some of the servos to move however I'm having some difficulty to get the servos to do a little bit more than just sweep. At the moment I'm just trying to get 3 to simultaneously move i.e to lift the legs. hopefully I can work from there.

Ive attached the code below its a slightly modified code of the adafruit servo library.
I apologize if Ive made any obvious mistakes. Any help would be fantastic but i would like to do some of the work but just getting one servo to do what i want and ill run with it from there (i hope).

Thanks
Phil

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/***************************************************
  This is an example for our Adafruit 16-channel PWM & Servo driver
  Servo test - this will drive 16 servos, one after the other

  Pick one up today in the adafruit shop!
  ------> http://www.adafruit.com/products/815

  These displays use I2C to communicate, 2 pins are required to 
  interface. For Arduino UNOs, thats SCL -> Analog 5, SDA -> Analog 4

  Adafruit invests time and resources providing this open source code,
  please support Adafruit and open-source hardware by purchasing
  products from Adafruit!

  Written by Limor Fried/Ladyada for Adafruit Industries. 
  BSD license, all text above must be included in any redistribution
 ****************************************************/

#include <Wire.h>
#include <Adafruit_PWMServoDriver.h>

// called this way, it uses the default address 0x40
Adafruit_PWMServoDriver pwm = Adafruit_PWMServoDriver();

#define SERVOMIN  200 // this is the 'minimum' pulse length count (out of 4096)
#define SERVOMAX  600 // this is the 'maximum' pulse length count (out of 4096)

void setup() {
  Serial.begin(9600);
  Serial.println("16 channel Servo test!");

  pwm.begin();
 
  pwm.setPWMFreq(60);  // Analog servos run at ~60 Hz updates

  yield();
}

// you can use this function if you'd like to set the pulse length in seconds
// e.g. setServoPulse(0, 0.001) is a ~1 millisecond pulse width. its not precise!
void setServoPulse(uint8_t n, double pulse) {
  double pulselength;
 
  pulselength = 1000000;   // 1,000,000 us per second
  pulselength /= 60;   // 60 Hz
  Serial.print(pulselength); Serial.println(" us per period");
  pulselength /= 4096;  // 12 bits of resolution
  Serial.print(pulselength); Serial.println(" us per bit");
  pulse *= 1000;
  pulse /= pulselength;
  Serial.println(pulse);
  pwm.setPWM(n, 0, pulse);
}

void loop() {
  // Drive each PWM in a 'wave'
  for (uint16_t i=0; i<4096; i += 8) {
    for (uint8_t pwmnum=0; pwmnum < 16; pwmnum++) {
      pwm.setPWM(pwmnum, 0, (i + (4096/16)*pwmnum) % 4096 );
    }
  }
}

[Philr]

Hi everyone I've managed to work it perhaps not the most straight forward way, however i would like all three servos to move at once now (next baby step!). any suggestions would be helpful!

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#include <Wire.h>
#include <Adafruit_PWMServoDriver.h>

// called this way, it uses the default address 0x40
Adafruit_PWMServoDriver pwm = Adafruit_PWMServoDriver();

#define SERVOMIN  200 // this is the 'minimum' pulse length count (out of 4096)
#define SERVOMAX  590 // this is the 'maximum' pulse length count (out of 4096)

void setup() {
  Serial.begin(9600);
  Serial.println("16 channel Servo test!");

  pwm.begin();
 
  pwm.setPWMFreq(60);  // Analog servos run at ~60 Hz updates

  yield();
}

// you can use this function if you'd like to set the pulse length in seconds
// e.g. setServoPulse(0, 0.001) is a ~1 millisecond pulse width. its not precise!
void setServoPulse(uint8_t n, double pulse) {
  double pulselength;
 
  pulselength = 1000000;   // 1,000,000 us per second
  pulselength /= 60;   // 60 Hz
  Serial.print(pulselength); Serial.println(" us per period");
  pulselength /= 4096;  // 12 bits of resolution
  Serial.print(pulselength); Serial.println(" us per bit");
  pulse *= 1000;
  pulse /= pulselength;
  Serial.println(pulse);
  pwm.setPWM(n, 0, pulse);
}

void loop() {
 pwm.setPWM(0,1000, 1500);
 pwm.setPWM(0,2000,3000);
 pwm.setPWM(1,1000, 1500);
 pwm.setPWM(1,2000,3000);
 pwm.setPWM(2,1000, 1500);
 pwm.setPWM(2,2000,3000);
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