and come back the next day.
Board is a Feather ESP32 and the sketch is the example Servo.
Sketch has been modified to only control servo number 8 (7 in the sketch).
My humble noobie opinion is that I might have to find better and isolated power sources.
For the advanced project, the SDA and SCL pins require 2 connections each. Would having 2 different SDA & SCL devices require a higher current draw ?
The sketch works fine when I start wiring the breadboard from scratch. I have an O-Scope attached instead of the servo as I wanted to see what the output looked like. It is a fluctuating (pulsing?) square wave.
The servo sketch is the basis for a more advanced project so I start with it working then add more devices and wires.
The additional devices are:
- BNO055 Absolute Orientation Sensor
- Adafruit's 9DOF (9 Degrees of Freedom) breakout board
I add the devices and wires slowly until the circuit is complete, and it is still working, and I can see the square wave on the scope.
So, I turn everything off and finish for the day.
The next day when I power it back up, I get a flat line on the scope.
I start removing the advanced project devices, 1 by 1, until it starts working. It takes my trying different things to get it to work properly. These are the different things I try until I get back to just the servo project.
- remove and re-insert the 5V USB connection from the PC. (Reboot it ?
Advanced project devices and connections - remove the SCL connection from the BNO055
- remove the SDA connection from the BNO055
- Reroute the 3,3v to the PCA9685
Eventually I get it to work again but the method is not always the same.
Maybe I will try and clean up the power and see what happens.
This is a complicated thing to describe or draw but I thought of another question somewhat related. Do the devices all come online at the same time so that their power requirements might result in a surge ?
I hope that doesn't sound stupid .
And thanks if this makes any sense to you.
/***************************************************
This is an example for our Adafruit 16-channel PWM & Servo driver
Servo test - this will drive 8 servos, one after the other on the
first 8 pins of the PCA9685
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These drivers use I2C to communicate, 2 pins are required to
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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();
// you can also call it with a different address you want
//Adafruit_PWMServoDriver pwm = Adafruit_PWMServoDriver(0x41);
// you can also call it with a different address and I2C interface
//Adafruit_PWMServoDriver pwm = Adafruit_PWMServoDriver(0x40, Wire);
// Depending on your servo make, the pulse width min and max may vary, you
// want these to be as small/large as possible without hitting the hard stop
// for max range. You'll have to tweak them as necessary to match the servos you
// have!
#define SERVOMIN 150 // This is the 'minimum' pulse length count (out of 4096)
#define SERVOMAX 600 // This is the 'maximum' pulse length count (out of 4096)
#define USMIN 600 // This is the rounded 'minimum' microsecond length based on the minimum pulse of 150
#define USMAX 2400 // This is the rounded 'maximum' microsecond length based on the maximum pulse of 600
#define SERVO_FREQ 50 // Analog servos run at ~50 Hz updates
// our servo # counter
uint8_t servonum = 7; <<--------------------------I changed this
void setup() {
Serial.begin(9600);
Serial.println("8 channel Servo test!");
pwm.begin();
/*
* In theory the internal oscillator (clock) is 25MHz but it really isn't
* that precise. You can 'calibrate' this by tweaking this number until
* you get the PWM update frequency you're expecting!
* The int.osc. for the PCA9685 chip is a range between about 23-27MHz and
* is used for calculating things like writeMicroseconds()
* Analog servos run at ~50 Hz updates, It is importaint to use an
* oscilloscope in setting the int.osc frequency for the I2C PCA9685 chip.
* 1) Attach the oscilloscope to one of the PWM signal pins and ground on
* the I2C PCA9685 chip you are setting the value for.
* 2) Adjust setOscillatorFrequency() until the PWM update frequency is the
* expected value (50Hz for most ESCs)
* Setting the value here is specific to each individual I2C PCA9685 chip and
* affects the calculations for the PWM update frequency.
* Failure to correctly set the int.osc value will cause unexpected PWM results
*/
pwm.setOscillatorFrequency(27000000);
pwm.setPWMFreq(SERVO_FREQ); // Analog servos run at ~50 Hz updates
delay(10);
}
// 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. It's not precise!
void setServoPulse(uint8_t n, double pulse) {
double pulselength;
pulselength = 1000000; // 1,000,000 us per second
pulselength /= SERVO_FREQ; // Analog servos run at ~60 Hz updates
Serial.print(pulselength); Serial.println(" us per period");
pulselength /= 4096; // 12 bits of resolution
Serial.print(pulselength); Serial.println(" us per bit");
pulse *= 1000000; // convert input seconds to us
pulse /= pulselength;
Serial.println(pulse);
pwm.setPWM(n, 0, pulse);
}
void loop() {
// Drive each servo one at a time using setPWM()
Serial.println(servonum);
for (uint16_t pulselen = SERVOMIN; pulselen < SERVOMAX; pulselen++) {
pwm.setPWM(servonum, 0, pulselen);
}
delay(500);
for (uint16_t pulselen = SERVOMAX; pulselen > SERVOMIN; pulselen--) {
pwm.setPWM(servonum, 0, pulselen);
}
delay(500);
// Drive each servo one at a time using writeMicroseconds(), it's not precise due to calculation rounding!
// The writeMicroseconds() function is used to mimic the Arduino Servo library writeMicroseconds() behavior.
for (uint16_t microsec = USMIN; microsec < USMAX; microsec++) {
pwm.writeMicroseconds(servonum, microsec);
}
delay(500);
for (uint16_t microsec = USMAX; microsec > USMIN; microsec--) {
pwm.writeMicroseconds(servonum, microsec);
}
delay(500);
/*
/* <<------- and I disabled the following 2 statements so that the servonum remains at 7.
/*
/* servonum++;
if (servonum > 7) servonum = 0; // Testing the first 8 servo channels */
}
