Electronics Workshop Craft Science Home Art & Design Maker Pro SUBSCRIBE Projects Blog Magazine Videos Skill Builders Reviews Events Shop Forums Education MAKE: PROJECTS Smartphone Servo By Kazuhisa “Kazu” Terasaki Category: Computers & Mobile, Electronics, Robotics Time Required: 30 minutesDifficulty: Easy Comments 2
Smartphones have become our primary interface to the network world, and increasingly, to the real world as well. I call this project GlueMotor, because it works like “glue” for putting gadgets together under smartphone control, providing a very easy way to build simple servo-controlled machines.
To use it for making simple gadgets or prototyping your projects, attach any convenient on-hand materials — PVC pipe, chopsticks, Legos, duct tape — to a GlueMotor, then plug it into your smartphone’s headphone jack. The GlueMotor app lets you control it with a finger swipe.
How It Works Controlling a hobby servomotor is relatively easy. It requires a single digital pulse
More info at: MAKE | Smartphone Servo