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How control many servos?

Geek-Zard93 over 3 years ago

I have an Idea inspired in the kinetic sculptures and the art installation Reflection made by Adam Cigler, Petr Vacek and Prusalab, my idea is like a clock using many hexagonal mirrors where each hexagonal is pull out by a servo so I would like know the different ways to control many servomotors, as brain I've though to use an ESP32, how should I start I would like to design my own board that brings all elements necessary to this project, could you suggest me how to create a properly PCB?.

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"Reflection" - Making of an art installation for Prague Signal Festival

Thank you for your comments!!.

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dougw over 3 years ago

Adafruit 16-Channel 12-bit PWM/Servo Driver Adafruit 16-Channel 12-bit PWM/Servo Driver
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michaelkellett over 3 years ago in reply to dougw

Hi Doug,

Your link doesn't work (at least in UK), this is what I got:

Sorry, we couldn't find the page you were looking for

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You Could Try...

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cstanton over 3 years ago in reply to michaelkellett

The product link is to the american store, which won't work for UK because there's no equivalent UK product code.
It was to this:
https://www.newark.com/adafruit/815/silicon-manufacturer/dp/42X3730

Which isn't stocked at Farnell UK, but there're products that use the chip:

https://uk.farnell.com/search?st=pca%209685
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beacon_dave over 3 years ago

Enrico's 'dynamic surface' project here on the Element 14 forum may also be of interest:

/challenges-projects/design-challenges/pi-iot/b/blog/posts/piiot---the-perfect-reading-place-19-tech-dynamic-surface-design-and-simulation

/challenges-projects/design-challenges/pi-iot/b/blog/posts/piiot---the-perfect-reading-place-20-tech-dynamic-surface-making-the-m-pix-prototype

/members-area/top-members/f/forum/7030/super-almost-crap-preview

as might the Morph project:

https://vimeo.com/347446497
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fmilburn over 3 years ago in reply to michaelkellett

It worked for me in the US but I get the same thing sometimes when people link Farnell. I've tried using the product code for Newark and the E14 insert product link function below:

Adafruit Servo Driver

It can also be seen at the Adafruit site.
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dougw over 3 years ago in reply to cstanton

When I try to order a part that is not in stock at Newark, it seems to do a good job of finding it at Farnell or Avnet, so somewhere the product codes seem to have links.
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