B8: Servo Motor Connection diagram for all servo codes

How to use array to rotate servo motor in different angles?

This entry is part 7 of 9 in the series Arduino Tips & Tricks

An array is a collection of values which are accessed with an index number. Any value in the array may be called in the program by calling the name of the array and the index number of the value.

The students who studied Python programming at Vidyasagar Academy will understand array and its indexing more easily.

The indexing of array starts from 0 i.e. the first value in the array begins at index number 0. An array needs to be declared and optionally assigned values before they can be used.

int arrayname[] = {value0, value1, value2...}

Likewise it is possible to declare an array by declaring the array type and size and later assign values to an index position:

int arrayname [5]; // declares integer array with 6 positions
arrayname [3] = 10; // assigns the 4th index the value 10

To retrieve or call a value from an array, assign a variable to the array and index position:

x = arrayname [3]; // x will be equal to 10

Arrays are often used in for loops, where the increment counter is also used as the index position for each array value.

The following example uses an array to rotate the servo motor, connected to pin-3 of Arduino UNO or Arduino Nano in different angles from 0 degree to 180 degree in steps of 30 degrees.

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Dattaraj Vidyasagar
Dattaraj Vidyasagar

Author on this website. He is veteran of Core Electronics since last 36+ years. ATL Mentor of Change, Niti Ayog, Govt. of India, Google Certified Educator, International Robotics Trainer and author of 18 books on electronics, robotics, programming languages and web designing... ➤➤

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