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    Lab 1: LAB 1: Voltage and Resistance LAB 2: Analog and Digital IO LAB 3: Servo Control LAB 4: RGB LED Control

LAB 3: Servo Control

This lab was used to expand on the IO experiment by implementing a simple open loop controller

Try it out yourself!

Simulation startup

The servo motor's position corresponds to the voltage read by the analog input

Continue turning the potentiometer and observe its nonlinearity

The button still acts as a counter but now enables or disables the servo depending on if the count is even or odd

Observe that the motor does not respond until re-enabled and the potentiometer is moved