Hello I'm new to programming and currently I'm trying to move several servos with different movement at the same time.
The problem I have is that I need different delays for each Servo. When I'm using the "delay" command it applies to every servo.
What do I do wrong?
#include <Servo.h>
Servo servo1;
Servo servo2;
int pos = 0;
void setup() {
servo1.attach(9);
servo2.attach(10);
}
void loop() {
for (pos = -60; pos <= 190; pos += 1) { // goes from -60 degrees to 190 degrees
// in steps of 1 degree
servo1.write(pos);
servo1.write(150 - (pos/2));
delay(30); // should be the delay for Servo1 only
servo2.write(pos);
servo2.write(100 - (pos/2));
delay(15); // should be the delay of Servo2 only
}
You need to use an approach like that which user UKHeliBob advocates, shown below in pseudocode. Do this for each servo...
Have a look at blink without delay, then think of the following as "sweep without delay".
UKHeliBob:
....don't move the servos from their current position to their target position all in one command. Move them a little every now and again using millis() for timing. Use a boolean variable to stop them moving when the target position is reached
For one servo, something like this
start of loop()
get current time from millis()
if current time - previous move time >= wait period and the moving variable is true
move a little
save the time of the move
change the target position a little
if at the target position
set the boolean to false
end if
end if
end of loop()
No, but you were the author of the pseudocode I gave; my main concern was citing you as author, not meaning that you had in anyway cornered the market on delay()-less thinking
Thanks for the mention but you should, perhaps, have pointed out that as the OP wants to control 2 servos with different timing the code will need to be duplicated or, better, used with arrays or structs to reuse the same code rather than duplicating it
