Arduino Servo Motor Control With Potentiometer

Because servo motors use feedback to determine the position of the shaft you can control that position very precisely.
Arduino servo motor control with potentiometer. I suggest you use external power to the servo. In this tutorial i will show arduino users how to control a continuous rotation servo or a normal servo. Control the position of the servo motor with the arduino and the potentiometer. Servo motors have three wires.
Analog input gets from the pot and according to this input the movement of servo change. It could be applied for ex. Sg90 mini rc servo motors can be used. Control the position of a rc hobby servo motor with your arduino and a potentiometer.
Servo motor control using a potentiometer knob we can use a potentiometer of any value between the 10k to 100k. One side pin of potentiometer is connected with the ground another side pin is connected with 5v supply and the middle pin is connected with the analog input pin of arduino a0. In this tutorial you are going to control the rotation of a servo with a potentiometer. The potentiometer has three pins connect the outside pins to 5 v and gnd.
You can connect small servo motors directly to an arduino to control the shaft position very precisely. The example code below lets you control a servo motor with a potentiometer. 6 1 controlling the position of the servo motor we will use an analog input to control the servo motor this will be helpfull if you decide to make something with a pan tilt platform. As a result s ervo motors are used to control the position of objects rotate objects move legs arms or hands of robots move sensors etc.
The power wire is typically red and should be connected to the 5v pin on the arduino or genuino board. This instructurable cane be used in combination with my 4 servos 2 joysticks instructurable to control a robotic arm. You not connect directly the servo motor to arduino. In contrast to the previous tutorial arduino tutorial.
This can damage the arduino mg996 instant high torque. Required hardware arduino board servo motor 10k ohm potentiometer jumper wires mini breadboard.