Subject:
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RE: expansion board - servo control
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lugnet.robotics.handyboard
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Date:
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Wed, 23 Dec 1998 18:39:09 GMT
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Original-From:
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Ross, Michael <MICHAEL.ROSS@LMCO.nospamCOM>
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I've had a similar problem, make sure your servo power is fully charged. An
undercharged system will sometimes drive all the way one way.
Mike Ross
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From:
shsc9801@condor.stcloudstate.edu[SMTP:shsc9801@condor.stcloudstate.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 1998 8:04 AM
To: handyboard@media.mit.edu
Subject: expansion board - servo control
Hello,
I emailed this to the handy board list and got one response. I am
mailing
it back hoping that I can get some more responses from those on the
list
and perhaps fred.
>Hi,
>
>I stopped working with the handyboard for a while but just started
back up
>again. I put the expansion board onto my handyboard and began
testing it.
>After testing the general tests done before with just the
handyboard I
>started testing the servo ports.
>
>I am having some trouble with controlling the ports though. When I
enter
>init_expbd_servos(int action); from the computer via IC, the motor
turns
>completely clockwise. It does not matter what my integer is as
long as it
>is not zero. I am not sure what the action variable should be in
any case.
>I also am unable to change the direction of the servo no matter
what action
>value is given or what value I give servo0, the port that the motor
is
>plugged into.
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>Can anyone give me any suggestions as to how to control the servo?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Scott Sherman
>shsc9801@condor.stcloudstate.edu
>ACS
>SCSU
>
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