https://github.com/theo-brown/pan-tilt-arm
Controlling a pan and tilt servo-powered arm from the Raspberry Pi
https://github.com/theo-brown/pan-tilt-arm
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Controlling a pan and tilt servo-powered arm from the Raspberry Pi
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/theo-brown/pan-tilt-arm
- Owner: theo-brown
- Created: 2014-09-03T14:03:07.000Z (almost 11 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2014-09-13T10:56:04.000Z (over 10 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-12-06T21:06:40.606Z (6 months ago)
- Language: C
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- Size: 145 KB
- Stars: 0
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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- Readme: README.md
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pan-tilt-arm
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Controlling a pan and tilt servo-powered arm from the raspberry pi.
So you have been given a Raspberry Pi by your Dad, and you don't have the foggiest idea of what to do with it.
This was the situation I found myself in, and so I decided to write up one of my first projects, so that everyone can get
going doing something with this wonderful bit of kit.
The idea of this project was to make a simple thing that was cool, and a starter on the road to robotics.
It was also to get people into learning C, which is quite a daunting task to start off with. I also wanted to learn
to use ncurses, a C module I haven't really used before.
However, as this is for beginners, I may end up uploading a different version of the code in python, which is
a lot easier to use. I will also at some point make a wiki (hopefully) detailing how to do it, as currently this is
just download, compile and play.
This program uses pigpio- download it here
abyz.co.uk/rpi/pigpio/pigpio.zip
You'll need to compile arm-control.c with the following flags
-lpigpio -lpthread -lrt -lncurses
to link it with pigpio and curses.
Attach the pan servo to pin 17 and the tilt servo to pin 4.