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Chapter 2 • Shield, Lights, Servo Motors
42 • Robotics with the BOE Shield-Bot
Chapter 2. Shield, Lights, Servo
Motors
In this chapter, you will use the Board of Education Shield for building and testing circuits
with Parallax continuous rotation servos, resistors, and LED lights. Along the way, you’ll
start learning the basics of building circuits and making the Arduino interact with them. By
the end of the chapter, you’ll have a pair of servos connected, each with its own signal
indicator light, and you’ll be writing sketches to control servo speed and direction.
Activity 1: Board of Education Shield Setup
The Board of Education Shield makes it easy to build circuits and connect servos to the
Arduino module. In this chapter, you will use it to test servos and indicator lights. Next
chapter, you’ll mount the BOE Shield and servos on a robot chassis to build a robot we’ll call
the BOE Shield-Bot.
Board of Education
Shield
continuous
rotation servo
resistor
and
LED