Pan and Tilt

Pan and tilt your Arduino connected bracket

Requirements

  • Arduino Uno
  • USB cable
  • Pan/Tilt Bracket from sparkfun
  • 2x Small Servos
  • Breadboard
  • Pinned wires

Pan and Tilt bracket

To create the bracket you can order the parts from sparkfun and follow their assembly instructions.

Hardware Installation

  • Connect the Pan servo's control wire to Pin 11 (configurable)
  • Connect the Tilt servo's control wire to Pin 9 (configurable)
  • Connect both servos' ground wires to GND
  • Connect both servos' power wires to 5V

Software Installation

  • Connect the Arduino to your computer via USB
  • Install the Arduino IDE
  • Install this gem

    gem install pan_tilt

Dino

The Dino bootstrapper will need to be instaled on the Arduino. You can follow the instructions in here. The .ino file referenced should be opened and not copied in.