use Arduino to control R/C inputs and outputs?

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I am fairly new at using Arduino and I had a question. I have an old R/C car and I just bought a Futaba attack-4 FP-T4NBL channel 38 72.550MHz transmitter and receiver and I was wondering if I could attach the receiver (with four channels) to my Arduino as an inputs and the attach the right outputs to the motor and servo so I can use the control stick to control the R/C car? Here are some pics. In the photo of the R/C car the wires on the left are connected to a servo that controls the steering and the wires on the right go to the motor. Hope the pics help explain what I want to do.

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Read the following link on Reading PPM from a hobby RC Receiver for RC input
http://arduino.cc/playground/Main/InterfacingWithHardware#PPM
http://arduino.cc/playground/Code/ReadReceiver
http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1253149521/all

and output using the Servo Library

http://www.arduino.cc/playground/ComponentLib/Servo

and the correct connection is

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and the correct connection is

...not that!
You should really power the servo separately, with the grounds only common.

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Thanks for the reply! This will really help me a lot!

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The servo on my R/C car has only two wires, a black and a brown. I thought they were suppose to have three, a ground, power, and a signal. What do I do and how do I wire it to my Arduino?

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Never seen one of those.
Can you post a photo of your servo?

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I found out that the "servo" that had two wires was actually a motor. But I'll still will try to get a photo of it.

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I have read the links that were provided but I still do not under stand how to program it. How would I program it ?