Hey guys,
My son and I are new to arduino and of course he new to coding. We are making a costume and got through wiring our board (just from looking at other diagrams and adding on to it, and have successfully gotten the wings to go up and down - even with LED's on the wings.
The challenge we are having is the following
- when the wings go down, they are going all the way down to 0, 180 rather than to the value we have set...
We are not sure if this is a problem with our code or with how we have wired our servos...
Any suggestions would be great.
Here is the code.
//zoomkat servo button toggle test 4-28-2012
#include <Servo.h>
int button = 5; //button pin, connect to ground to move servo
int press = 0;
Servo myservo; // initializing servos
Servo myservo1;
int i; // used for - for loop 20 times
int RedLed = 2; // red led
int GreenLed = 3;// green led
int ledState1 = LOW; // ledState used to set the LED
unsigned long previousMillis1 = 0; // will store last time LED was updated
long OnTime1 = 250; // milliseconds of on-time
long OffTime1 = 750; // milliseconds of off-time
int ledState2 = LOW; // ledState used to set the LED
unsigned long previousMillis2 = 0; // will store last time LED was updated
long OnTime2 = 330; // milliseconds of on-time
long OffTime2 = 400; // milliseconds of off-time
boolean toggle = true;
void setup()
{
pinMode(button, INPUT); //arduino monitor pin state
pinMode(RedLed, OUTPUT);
pinMode(GreenLed, OUTPUT);
myservo.attach(9); //pin for servo control signal
myservo1.attach(10); //pin for servo control signal
digitalWrite(5, HIGH); //enable pullups to make pin high
}
void loop()
{
press = digitalRead(button);
if (press == LOW)
{
if(toggle)
{
/*
myservo.write(90);
myservo1.write(90);
delay(2000);
*/
/*
myservo.write(170);
myservo1.write(80);
delay(50);
*/
// for servo one sweeping
int servpos=170;
int servpos1=80;
int pos =80; //variable to store the servo position
int pos1 =170; // variable to store the servo position
while(pos <= servpos && pos1 >= servpos1)
{ // in steps of 1 degree
pos++;
pos1--;
myservo.write(pos); // tell servo to go to position in
// variable 'pos'
myservo1.write(pos1); // tell servo to go to position in
delay(15); // waits 15ms for the servo to reach
// the position
}
for(i=0; i <=10; i++) {
digitalWrite(RedLed, HIGH); // turn the LED on (HIGH is the voltage level)
delay(100);
digitalWrite(RedLed, LOW); // turn the LED off by making the voltage LOW
delay(100); // wait for a second
}
toggle = !toggle;
}
else
{
// to go down more slowly put in for loop'
/*
myservo.write(90);
myservo1.write(90);
delay(2000);
*/
myservo.write(100);
myservo1.write(170);
delay(15);
for(i=0; i <=10; i++) {
digitalWrite(GreenLed, HIGH); // turn the LED on (HIGH is the voltage level)
delay(100);
digitalWrite(GreenLed, LOW); // turn the LED off by making the voltage LOW
delay(100); // wait for a second
}
toggle = !toggle;
}
}
delay(500); //delay for debounce
unsigned long currentMillis = millis();
if((ledState1 == HIGH) && (currentMillis - previousMillis1 >= OnTime1))
{
ledState1 = LOW; // Turn it off
previousMillis1 = currentMillis; // Remember the time
digitalWrite(RedLed, ledState1); // Update the actual LED
}
else if ((ledState1 == LOW) && (currentMillis - previousMillis1 >= OffTime1))
{
ledState1 = HIGH; // turn it on
previousMillis1 = currentMillis; // Remember the time
digitalWrite(RedLed, ledState1); // Update the actual LED
}
if((ledState2 == HIGH) && (currentMillis - previousMillis2 >= OnTime2))
{
ledState2 = LOW; // Turn it off
previousMillis2 = currentMillis; // Remember the time
digitalWrite(GreenLed, ledState2); // Update the actual LED
}
else if ((ledState2 == LOW) && (currentMillis - previousMillis2 >= OffTime2))
{
ledState2 = HIGH; // turn it on
previousMillis2 = currentMillis; // Remember the time
digitalWrite(GreenLed, ledState2); // Update the actual LED
}
}
Here are the wings in motion - we made the changes to the wings on the way down - so they go slower...
Any advice? Should I shoot a photo on how we have the breadboard set up?
