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Servo, LED, and other output commands

command

stack

effect

description

SPEED -2

sets the speed of the channel specified by the top element to the

value in the second element (see Section 4.b)

ACCELERATION -2

sets the acceleration of the channel specified by the top element

to the value in the second element (see Section 4.b)

GET_POSITION -1,+1 gets the position of the channel specified by the top element

GET_MOVING_STATE +1

true if any servos that are limited by speed or acceleration settings

are still moving

SERVO -2

sets the target of the channel specified by the top element to the

value in the second element, in units of 0.25 μs

SERVO_8BIT -2

sets the target of the channel specified by the top element to the

value in the second element, which should be a value from 0 to

254 (see the Mini SSC command in Section 5.e)

LED_ON none turns the red LED on

LED_OFF none turns the red LED off (assuming no errors bits are set)

PWM -2

(Mini Maestro 12, 18, and 24 only) enables the PWM output

channel, with the period specified by the top element and the on

time specified by the second element, both in units of 1/48 μs (see

Section 4.a for more information about PWM)

SERIAL_SEND_BYTE -1

(Mini Maestro 12, 18, and 24 only) removes the top number from

the stack, interprets it as a single byte, and sends that byte to the

TTL serial output (TX)

6.c. Example Scripts

Getting started: blinking an LED

The following script will cause the red LED on the Maestro to blink once per second:

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