I'm a mechanical engineering student at San Diego State U. My team (4 people) has to build a mars rover type vehicle that will fit in a 12x8x6" box including all control equipment, cross 2, 36" canyons, retrieve a rock, and then get back across the gaps. I'll give full details to anyone who wants them, but it would take forever to type all the rules here. Anyway...
I've never worked with electronics before except in my Microcontroller class, which is only an introduction. I need to see some kind of schematic for wiring a potentiometer to drive a pair of gates (like pinball flappers) that will be used as the rock retrieving arms. The pots at RAdio Shack all have 3 prongs, that part makes sense. But, I don't know which wire to put where, or how to connect the potentiometer to the servo. Can anyone help? Thanks!!
I've never worked with electronics before except in my Microcontroller class, which is only an introduction. I need to see some kind of schematic for wiring a potentiometer to drive a pair of gates (like pinball flappers) that will be used as the rock retrieving arms. The pots at RAdio Shack all have 3 prongs, that part makes sense. But, I don't know which wire to put where, or how to connect the potentiometer to the servo. Can anyone help? Thanks!!