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Re: Servo command confusion?!?!?!?!
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Originally Posted by Gdeaver
I believe the atom does not have hardware pwm in the chip. The servo command is a software implemented pwm. The sevo command is going to take a good amount of time. If you have to control the Servo signal very fast then you'll need hardware pwm. The FRC has several hardware pwm outputs. there are several other microcontrolers that have pwm hardware or you could use a seperate pwm chip to control the servos.
The basic atom comes equipped with 16 direct servo pots, and 4 aux ports. It can handle all of the servos. But I don't know which command to use in order to move more than one. It's not a hardware problem it's a programming problem.
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