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Re: Motor Control
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Date: 
Sun, 19 Sep 1999 18:23:14 GMT
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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 least expensive.

Have fun,
- Nick -

Phil Watt wrote:

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

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Scott Edwards sells a pic that can control 8 servos. He regulary advertises in Nuts and Volts Magazine. (...) (25 years ago, 19-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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