5 DoF Robot arm, MG996R, positional feedback.

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Hi,

I'm pretty new to this so apologies for asking for the basics. I have a project at college where I am to control a 5 DoF robot arm using servos and positional feedback. I have the MG996R servos and an arduino.

Could someone give me a starter for 10? i.e. how do I connect my servos to an arduino and is it straight forward to get the necessary feedback?

Thanks in advance

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Thanks in advance

You might have more to be thankful for if you posted a link to the servos you are using.

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Mcguckinjon:
how do I connect my servos to an arduino and is it straight forward to get the necessary feedback?

The connection part's easy; have a look at the examples here. But ignore the part where they power the servo from the Arduino: give the servo its own power from other source, and join all the -ves together (servo -ve, Arduino gnd, servo power -ve).

The feedback's not so easy; there's normally no link from the servo's internals back out to the user. Adafruit sell these modified servos with an extra wire, so perhaps you could mod yours the same? Failing that someone may have some other suggestions...