{"id":9229,"date":"2015-08-18T20:00:33","date_gmt":"2015-08-19T03:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.digilentinc.com\/?p=9229"},"modified":"2021-06-16T16:08:11","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T23:08:11","slug":"using-the-pmodcon3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/using-the-pmodcon3\/","title":{"rendered":"Using the PmodCON3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/Products\/Detail.cfm?NavPath=2,401,497&amp;Prod=PMOD-CON3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PmodCON3 <\/a>is\u00a0the R\/C servo connector Pmod, meaning it is used to as a bridge between boards and servo motors. The PmodCON3 is a great tool when using servo motors, since\u00a0you don&#8217;t have to worry about powering individual servo motors. You can check out a more elaborate\u00a0description of the PmodCON3 and other motor output Pmods <a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/index.php\/digilent-pmods-motor-output\/#prettyPhoto\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This Pmod is an excellent addition to many projects, such as any sort of mobile robot or say a bot requiring precision, such as a drawing robot.\u00a0Projects like this awesome <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/Servo-driven-face\/\">Servo Driven Face<\/a> by dionica12 on Instructables are excellent examples of projects that might benefit from this particular Pmod.<a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/FU8YHH9H1YONLAG.LARGE_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9532\" src=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/FU8YHH9H1YONLAG.LARGE_-600x338.jpg\" alt=\"FU8YHH9H1YONLAG.LARGE\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/FU8YHH9H1YONLAG.LARGE_-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/FU8YHH9H1YONLAG.LARGE_.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The PmodCON3 is an easy Pmod to use, as there are no special libraries required. There is no on-board chip on the Pmod, meaning that the data signals sent in are more or less the same sent out.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/Products\/Detail.cfm?NavPath=2,401,497&amp;Prod=PMOD-CON3\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9244\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-9244\" src=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/16053958747_fbec17af90_o-600x383.png\" alt=\"PmodCON3\" width=\"466\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/16053958747_fbec17af90_o-600x383.png 600w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/16053958747_fbec17af90_o.png 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in using the PmodCON3, check out how to use it\u00a0with other boards <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/Using-the-PmodCON3-with-chipKIT-products\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>!<\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style6 like-9229 jlk' data-task='like' data-post_id='9229' data-nonce='ee750c7abc' rel='nofollow'><img src='https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post-pro\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-9229 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style6 unlike-9229 jlk' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='9229' data-nonce='ee750c7abc' rel='nofollow'><img src='https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post-pro\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Unlike' \/><span class='unlc-9229 unlc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-9229 status align-left'>Be the 1st to vote.<\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josh explains some good uses for the PmodCON3!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":9259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,1563],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[4478],"class_list":["post-9229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-expansion-modules","category-guide"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/title.png","authors":[{"term_id":4478,"user_id":29,"is_guest":0,"slug":"josh-woldstad","display_name":"Josh","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b4b62729a3daba9bb76117db7130e81e?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"Woldstad","last_name_2":"","first_name":"Josh","first_name_2":"","job_title":"","description":"I love Coding!"}],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9229"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=9229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}