Here’s some fun with a servo:
A slider drives the two servos in opposite directions, so you can make this thing turn on the spot.
Here’s the sketch:
Had to use SoftwareServo instead of the Servo library which comes with Arduino IDE 0015 – which didn’t work for me.
Turns out that only pulses from 1.4 to 1.6 msec actually have any effect on the speed of the servos, the rest of the 1.0 .. 2.0 msec range just makes them run at full speed. These ara Parallax (Futaba) Continuous Rotation Servos.
Note that the servos are driven from the PWR line, i.e. the full 5V – but the servo pulses are 3.3V, like the rest of the JeeNode.
It’d be nice to use a Wii Nunchuk controller as input. Even more fun would be an accelerometer / gyro combo to turn this thing into a self-balancing bot …