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 | Re: Motor Control 
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            | Date: 
 | Sun, 19 Sep 1999 16:03:07 GMT 
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 |  | Scott Edwards sells a pic that can control 8 servos.  He regulary advertises in Nuts and Volts Magazine.
 
 http://www.seetron.com/ssc.htm
 
 -Phil
 
 Philippe Jadin wrote:
 
 > > 3) Are their any driver chips that will allow me
 > > to input a digital value and get the correct corresponding Pulse Width
 > > Modulated output to drive a hobby servo like Futaba, etc.?
 >
 > There is probably no ready-to use chip to control a servo with a digital
 > value. But you have two solutions :
 >
 > 1. Try to program a pulse width modulated signal output. You need a fast
 > "brain"...
 > 2. With an digital to analog converter and a 555 chip, you could
 > probably convert an 8 bit signal to the right pwm... Didn't test it
 > though.
 >
 > For the first solution, I've already made a simple servo tester, which
 > use a standard printer port, and a windows proggy (sources included).
 > You can control up to eight servo's with one parallel port...
 >
 > Look at : http://users.swing.be/philippe.jadin/servoen.htm
 >
 > Good luck !
 >
 > Philippe
 >
 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
 >                              Philippe Jadin
 >                      mailto:philippe.jadin@skynet.be
 >                              Belgium, Europe
 > Simple yet usefull  Robot stuff goto
 > http://users.swing.be/philippe.jadin
 >        For low-cost web design goto http://users.skynet.be/clairetnet
 
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 |  | Philippe - - Scott Edwards' Mini SSC-IIs get my highest recommendation if you need to control several servos. If you only need to control one or two servos the SSC-II is probably over-kill. A BASIC Stamp is the easiest way to go, and a PIC is the (...)   (26 years ago, 19-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics) 
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 |  | (...) There is probably no ready-to use chip to control a servo with a digital value. But you have two solutions : 1. Try to program a pulse width modulated signal output. You need a fast "brain"... 2. With an digital to analog converter and a 555 (...)   (26 years ago, 18-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics) 
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