Online documentation for PhidgetServo

Generated 2006-03-17

Used to control a 1-motor or 4-motor Phidget Servo board.

Summary

This component can be used to connect and to control a PhidgetServo board.

Description

This component can be used to connect to a 1-motor or 4-motor PhidgetServo board. This means that it can be used to control the motor position of any servo motors that are connected to this board. For more information, see http://www.phidgets.com.

Installation

Installing the Phidget library

Before using any Phidget component, you should install the Phidget library. This can be downloaded from http://www.phidgets.com - click downloads, then release then download and install PHIDGET.msi.

Installing a PhidgetServo board

Before using this component, you should (in this order)
  1. connect as many motors as are required to your PhidgetServo board
  2. connect your board, via USB, to your computer

Configuration

If you only have one PhidgetServo board connected to your computer, then simply create a PhidgetServo component, and set its configured property to true. The component will then connect to the board and create the correct number of servoout properties for the board that you have used. If you have more than one board connected, find out the serial number of the board you wish to connect, specify this using the configSerialNumber property, and then set the configured property to true.

Usage

To control the position of any servo motors attached to the board, set the values of the servoout properties to any value in the range 0.0-1.0 (corresponds to a positional range of 0-180 deg).