Servo Motor Mounts

In Lesson 4 students will continue to enrich their understanding of the Engineering Design Process as they add mounts to hold servo motors to their GoPiGo Robots. This is a great lesson in measuring, planning, and rethinking how systems work.

2. Investigate: Learn about Servo motors

Servo motors come in many shapes and sizes and can vary in how they work. The servo motors that we will be using is a 9-gram micro servo motor. Don't let its size fool you, this micro servo is quite impressive for its size and it can help complete a large range of tasks.

The first thing to know is that your servo will go 180° degrees. It will not spin a full 360°

Connect your servo motor to your GoPiGo and run the following code.

Now, change the code and see how it affects your motor.