Control a Lot of Servoes With Arduino!
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Control a Lot of Servoes With Arduino!
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At first I should tell something. I had not beautiful pictures. So, I have taken the pictures from bildr.blog.
We know, an Arduino UNO has not much pwm pins to control many servoes. So, we often fall in a problem to control more servoes by an arduino. Today, I will explain you how can you control a lot of servoes woth arduino. So, let's started.
Gather Materials
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You will must need an arduino, you know. Then, you will need a breakout board for pwm pins. It's name is TLC5940 breakout board. Here is the list -
1. Arduino UNO R3
2. TLC5940 breakout board
3. 5 volt adapter
4. As much servo as you want to control
That's all!
Circuit Diagram
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Here is the circuit. Connect them by jumper cables.
More Servoes!
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You can connect only 16 servoes with a TLC5940 breakout board. But if you want to control more servoes you can follow this circuit diagram. And now, controlling a lot of servoes is not will be a matter to you. Will not it!
Thanks!
But you should not stop here. You can make a humanoid robot and more by this idea!! Here is an URL for making humanoid robot
https://www.instructables.com/id/Making-humanoid-r...
Thanks a lot!