Thread: Motor to Servo
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Re: Motor to Servo

you will need to gear down the motor significantly, put a potentiometer on the shaft.
PID is basically a method of predicting how a motor will react in the future based on current changes. a simple thing you could do is just make the amount of power given to the motor propotional to the distance you are from your target potentiometer value.
this will probably work very well for a slow position application like this
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