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Mechanics and Construction => Mechanics and Construction => Topic started by: maine2 on April 01, 2009, 04:42:03 PM

Title: HS-311 servo?
Post by: maine2 on April 01, 2009, 04:42:03 PM

Okay, I have a question...please be patient with me because I have no experience with this stuff :-[.  I just got the servo's in the mail today for the $50 robot.  I am eager to attempt to the modification but the tutorial says it need to be hooked up to the microcontroller.  So do I need to wait until I put together the little board complete with the ATmega8 AVR and the AVR STK serial port dongle programmer before I can modify?  Is that how they get their power?  Or do they get powered by the 9V battery??  Sorry, I'm just a little confused ???...And thank you all in advance.

Title: Re: HS-311 servo?
Post by: offy on April 01, 2009, 05:11:24 PM

First you need to have the microcontroller built, if you do it admins way of modifaction. If you MUST modify now, you can do it the way I do it.

http://www.societyofrobots.com/member_tutorials/node/82 (http://www.societyofrobots.com/member_tutorials/node/82)

you need 2.2k OHM resistors.

I like doing it this way because it always works. With gluing you could be off a little and mess up.