Servo Values to Degrees... How?

10-02-2007, 16:16

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Re: Servo Values to Degrees... How?

but how can you convert tilt servo values into degrees. sorry, i'm kinda tired, so i might be being dense

EDIT: Would this work?

Code:

				angle= (TILT_SERVO-STOP)*0.75757575;
				distance = HEIGHT_DIFF/atan(angle);

.757575... is the degrees per servo step

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