Make: Robotic Arms

19Chapter 1: The Foundation of Robotic Arms

WHAT ARE WE BUILDING?

In project 2, we’re going to take what we learned about the steps needed to

make our servo mode and add a crucial feature: two push-buttons that will

allow us to actively control the angle of our motor. In project 1, if we wanted

to change the angle of our motor, we needed to change the desired angle

in our code, then reupload our sketch. By adding two push-buttons, we can

use one to increase the angle of our motor and another to decrease it.

Now that our motor is moving, we need to add a method of controlling its

position. It’s pretty rare that a robotic arm moves to a singular ...