Parallax Basic Stamp 2 Servos

[ivaerak]

sweet

[realmthr]

Thank you! Very informative.

[ebustos23]

can you post your code?

[togaida]

I know this maybe a little late but I have the BASIC Homework Board and wanted to do the samething you've done in your video: control two servos in different directions for my webcam, can you guide me or share your codes (maybe a diagram of the schematics? I wouls very much appreciate it, if need be, I can machine a nice frame (aluminum) for your servo motor controlled pan/tilt webcam as a trade of, that is if you still have the webcam, of course.

[MRTOMSK1]

bit joyky

[OSS4USA]

Extremely atomic!!!!

[opticaoptica]

That is so awesome. I will be getting a board shortly.

[roboman2444]

nice job, but is called a basic stamp 2 not a basic 2 stamp

[breaker00000000]

Nice Work!!

[xerochaos187]

good job man .

[cantpickcauseallgone]

Not bad. Now imprrove it by making it stay after you let off the controls.

[offlanders]

That would be a simple change in the program. But I opted not to because this project was designed to prove concept for a hobby servo controller. As you know it returns to zero position when you let go of the controls.

[cantpickcauseallgone]

I know that. I've been doing electronics for years.

[Atomic101Heli]

Im an airplane hobbist and i run top of the line avioncies and i noticed youp your servoes run a little jittery. How many volts are you runing into the servoes? also if your running them at 6 volts step them 7 volts at 600 miliamps. Then you servoes will run faster and smoother.

[offlanders]

Thanks for the tip, I didn't know that. will have to try it out. Currently I am making my own RC controller.

[Atomic101Heli]

cool, wirless?

[Atomic101Heli]

Ok iv etalked to you before i got the code for this you gave it to me. But ive got problems. Im not sure if its a Hardware or software problem i thinks its a hardware problem. I will not beable to get a hold of you for untill Friday.

[Atomic101Heli]

Yeah to make it stay you would remove the springs into the controler.

[realnola]

Get away from bread boards and make your own pc boards, its easier and cheaper. I stopped messing with bread boards when I was a kid, its a great way to proto but the available boards these days are so cheap.

[concretewhole]

Rigging up some kind of motion or object detection system where it turns on the camera or turns on a recording system for the camera would be cool...I'm a big fan of them sonar dectectors...Some kind of heat sensor, would be cool where if your cam is outside would allow to not to have the cam on whenever it spots a small body heated object (animal). I cant find any single heat sensors yet, there already built into some kind of device, I dont think it would be worth it to buy it then gut it.

[Atomic101Heli]

Na i would use infrared trip sensor its a cleaner and less expensive setup. Also its very smiple.

[concretewhole]

What are the LEDs purpose in your project...I've wanted to do something like that too, using BASICSTAMP, but I would wanna gut a camcorder that has zoom. I'm sure theirs smaller ones available, but the price tag is alot higher, then if you just gut a older camcorder

[offlanders]

The green led is just simply indicating the power is on, the yellow and red leds are indicating the pulses being sent to the servos, as just a back check that there is indeed output being sent.

[Atomic101Heli]

how do you write the code, because i can olny control one servo

[MaasBrothers]

Build robot's and rule that world!

[sesoma0]

damn ... im just learning this stuff with breadbords

i made a xof port or somthing like that today :D

i was like uber happy to acomlish somthing like that and see the leds go on ... but now i see this im like ... dang ... just awesom dude