I saw this post that had 1 servo motor controlled that steered a boat motor
I was trying to make two servos that act exactly the same as this post
if anyone could help would be greatly appreciated.
What post?
sorry im still learning how to link stuff
someone made a single axis for one joystick but was wondering if it could be two servos with two axis joysticks
Two motors side by side each controlled but their respective joysticks?
could it be done with one controller?
yes two servos controlled by one Arduino one joystick that has two axis
Yes.
Why do You want to control the servos separately? Making the two engines point at each other will create bubbles but for what good?
In other words, why not one joystick controlling both engines? Let be that one joystck signal be treated with mathematics to make the two engine angels be optimized. Larger angle for the inner motor in a turn.
im not using it to control trolling motors
its for a different project, im making a crane rotate and a winch motor that will be controlled with one joystick up down for winch motor and left right for crane left and right
Okey! Got hooked up on boats and thought of a dual engine boat...
Still, no problem.
Exercise joystick reading and servo running. But..... wouldn't DC or stepper motors be better then 0 - 180 degree servos?
only need 180 deg motion, i just dont know how to combine the two servos in program
Fine. Then we can continue.
As I get it the two servo moves independently.
Joysticks usually consists of 2 potentiometers. One working horisontally and one vertically.
Read one pot, scale and calculate the data for that part. Then do the same for the other pot/servo.
If You use sensitive fingers on the joysticks speed control will no be needed,
Read a pot, move the servo. Read the other pot, move its servo. End of loop.
yes
exactly
im not well versed yet on this coding
i can do parallax basic stamp, but this code is not intuitive.
It's not far away. Explore the built in example codes in the IDE!
Reading pots...... Moving servos..... Doing several things at the same time....
Take one step at the time building the system. Banging everything together and starting coding is the absolute worst way to go.
Invent the need for powering! The controller needs its power, the servos need their powering.
How will You use the project? Mobile, running for how long time, indicates what powering is needed.
its for my grandkids
were building a lego crane that moves
when you make mistakes the compiler doesnt really show how to fix the problem
Post the code and the error message here!
Nice project! No grandkids here yet....
Push the joystick forward, the hoist goes down, the farther you push the faster it goes. return to center the hoist stops. Same with rotation, is that what you mean?
Im not good with the programming
Im not looing to master this program
just asking if someone could help me combine the trolling motor steering program to do 2 servos with two joysticks