How to Control Servo Motors with an Arduino!

Learn to Control Servo Motors using a Potentiometer with this fun Arduino Beginner project!!

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The Arduino beginner project manual calls this a 'mood cue' because they suggest using the servo to point to how you're feeling, but I use it for a little more fun displaying of some cool stuff!

The circuit build is pretty straightforward, with just a few capacitors, some jumper wires, a potentiometer and a 3-wire servo motor. Then the code really just boils down to reading the potentiometer position in, mapping the raw signal into a formatted angle command, and then controlling the state of our Servo based on that!
We also sneak a pretty good lesson in there on how capacitors work!

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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Intro and Description
01:09 Quick Science-y Lesson: How Capacitors Work!
02:40 Physical Potentiometer - Servo Circuit Build!
04:41 Programming the Sketch!
07:00 Showcase and Outro!