Arduino - Motor Control and Tone Output

Motor Control

This week’s labs consisted of controlling a servo motor’s position with an analog sensor, as well creating tones with a mini-speaker and analog sensors.

The servo motor can be controlled to do simple motions. Here I am pinching a force sensor which instructs the Arduino to rotate the arm on the motor. The harder I pinch the force sensor, the farther the servo motor rotates the arm within a 180 degree limit. Here’s the lab instructions.

Tone Output

Next, for the tone output lab, we had to do the following:

1. create tone control via photo sensors

2. Program the Arduino to play a melody

3. Create a musical instrument. This was accomplished by using three force sensors which are mapped to specific notes.