Hobby Servo Tutorial

Contributors: MikeGrusin, Byron J.

Resources & Going further

Resources

• The Servo Motor category contains a wide variety of servos. The author has found that the generic metal gear micro-size servo behaves particularly well.
• The SparkFun Servo Trigger is available in standard and continuous rotation varieties.
• The Micro Maestro is a six channel USB-to-Servo interface.

Going further

• The Wikipedia article on Radio control Servos contains more more detailed information and history of servos.
• The uArm is a robotic arm that is driven by servo motors.
• You can hack a regular servo to turn it into a continuous rotation one.
• You can also remove the control board, turning a servo into a small DC gearmotor.

For more servo fun, check out these other SparkFun tutorials: