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Product User’s Manual – Shield-Servo

Activate Servo Channel Command

The initial status for servo motor is deactivated. Host need to sends 2 byte command to

Shield-Servo to On/Off selected channels or all channels before running the servo motor. The

command is being send in packet format. Each packet consists of 2 bytes. Servo motor channel is

from 0-8. Select ‘0’ to activate/deactivate all servo motor fro channel 1 to 8.

i. 1st byte: Mode + servo motor channel

110

Mode to activate servo channel

00000-01000

Servo motor channel

ii. 2nd byte: On/Off

Activate servo motor

Deactivate servo motor

Position and speed command

a. The command is being send in packet format. Host needs to send a packet of data. Each

packet consists of 4 bytes. The data need to be sent 1 byte by 1 byte.

i. 1

st

byte: Mode + Servo motor channel

ii. 2

nd

byte: Position (Higher 7 bit)

iii. 3

rd

byte: Position (Lower 6 bit)

iv. 4

th

byte: Speed (0-100)

b. Shield-servo translate four bye into three parameter.

Byte

Binary

Hexadecimal

Decimal

1st Byte

0b111XXXXX

0xE1 to 0xE8

224 to 232

2nd Byte

0b0XXXXXXX

0x00 to 0x7F

0 to 127

3rd Byte

0b00XXXXXX

0x00 to 0x3F

0 to 63

4th Byte

0b0XXXXXXX

0x00 to 0x64

0 to 100