{"id":12369,"date":"2016-02-16T20:00:29","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T04:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.digilentinc.com\/?p=12369"},"modified":"2021-06-16T14:24:24","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T21:24:24","slug":"how-to-control-a-servo-with-fpga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/how-to-control-a-servo-with-fpga\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Control A Servo with The Basys 3 (FPGA)"},"content":{"rendered":"

As\u00a0you may be aware if you follow the blog closely, I’ve been working on building the claw machine. The claw machine is one of those infuriating devices that camps in front of various places of business\u00a0to lure you into paying a dollar to discover that you likely do not in fact, have the skills required to maneuver said claw in a successful toy-picking up manner. However, in an effort to show that I’m not bitter, I’m making one of my own.<\/p>\n

So far in the process I have controlled a stepper motor with the FPGA<\/a>, and used a Joystick to control the stepper motor with FPGA<\/a>. Now I have gotten control of a servo with FPGA. More specifically I’m using the Basys 3 <\/a>to send signals through the PmodCON3<\/a>, to a GWS servo<\/a>. I even wrote an Instructable<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here is the project in action:<\/p>\n