DIY How to Control Servo Motor Angle Using Visuino Sequence Component

License: GNU Lesser General Public License Microcontrollers PWM Servo Arduino ESP32

In this tutorial, we will use a servo motor, Arduino UNO, and Visuino to control the servo motor angle using the sequence component.
The sequence component is perfect for situations where we want to trigger several events in sequence, in our case, servo motor degrees.

Watch the demonstration video.

What You Will Need

What You Will Need photo 2

What You Will Need photo 3

What You Will Need photo 4

The Circuit

Connect the servo motor "Orange" pin to Arduino digital pin [8]
Connect the Servo motor "Red" pin to Arduino positive pin [5V]
Connect the servo motor "Brown" pin to the Arduino negative pin [GND].

The Circuit

The Circuit photo 2

Step 3

All you need to do is drag and drop components and connect them together. Visuino will create the working code for you, so you don’t have to waste time on creating the code. It will do all the hard work for you fast and easy! Visuino is perfect for all kinds of projects; you can easily build complex projects in no time!

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Step 3

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Start Visuino, and Select the Arduino UNO Board Type

To start programming the Arduino, you will need to have the Arduino IDE installed from here: http://www.arduino.cc/.

Please be aware that there are some critical bugs in Arduino IDE 1.6.6. Make sure that you install 1.6.7 or higher; otherwise, this will not work! If you have not done so, follow the steps to set up the Arduino IDE to program Arduino UNO! The Visuino: https://www.visuino.eu also needs to be installed. Start Visuino as shown in the first picture. Click on the "Tools" button on the Arduino component (Picture 1) in Visuino. When the dialog appears, select "Arduino UNO" as shown in Picture 2

Start Visuino, and Select the Arduino UNO Board Type

Start Visuino, and Select the Arduino UNO Board Type photo 2

In Visuino, Add Components

Add "Sequence" component
Add 5x "Analog Value" component
Add "Analog Multi Merger" component
Add "Divide Analog By Value" component
Add "Servo" component

In Visuino Add Components

In Visuino Set Components

Select the "Sequence1" component, and double-click on it. In the "Elements" Dialog:
Drag 5X "Period" element to the left.

Select "Period1" element and under the properties window set "Delay" to "1000"
Select "Period2" element and under the properties window set "Delay" to "2000"
Select "Period3" element and under the properties window set "Delay" to "3000"
Select "Period4" element and under the properties window set "Delay" to "4000"
Select "Period5" element and under the properties window set "Delay" to "5000" >>this one will be used just for a pause at the end.

Now let's set degrees for the servo motor:
Select "AnalogValue1" component and under the properties window set "Value" to "0"

Select "AnalogValue2" component and under the properties window set "Value" to "60"

Select "AnalogValue3" component and under the properties window set "Value" to "120"

Select "AnalogValue4" component and under the properties window set "Value" to "180"

Select "AnalogMultiMerger1" component and under the properties window set "Input pins" to "4"

Select "DivideByValue1" component and under the properties window set "value" to "180"

In Visuino Set Components

In Visuino Connect Components

Connect "Sequence1">Period1 pin [Out] to "AnalogValue1" pin [clock]
Connect "Sequence2">Period1 pin [Out] to "AnalogValue2" pin [clock]
Connect "Sequence3">Period1 pin [Out] to "AnalogValue3" pin [clock]
Connect "Sequence4">Period1 pin [Out] to "AnalogValue4" pin [clock]

Connect "AnalogValue1" pin [Out] to "AnalogMultiMerger1" pin [0]
Connect "AnalogValue2" pin [Out] to "AnalogMultiMerger1" pin [1]
Connect "AnalogValue3" pin [Out] to "AnalogMultiMerger1" pin [2]
Connect "AnalogValue4" pin [Out] to "AnalogMultiMerger1" pin [3]

Connect "AnalogMultiMerger1" pin [Out] to "DivideByValue1" pin [In]
Connect "DivideByValue1" pin [Out] to "Servo1" pin [In]

Connect "Servo1" pin [Out] to Arduino digital pin [8]

In Visuino Connect Components

Generate, Compile, and Upload the Arduino Code

In Visuino, Press F9 or click on the button shown in Picture 1 to generate the Arduino code, and open the Arduino IDE

In the Arduino IDE, click on the Upload button to compile and upload the code (Picture 2)

Generate, Compile, and Upload the Arduino Code

Generate, Compile, and Upload the Arduino Code photo 2

Play

If you power the Arduino UNO module, the servo motor will start to move according to the degrees you set.

Congratulations! You have completed your project with Visuino. Also attached is the Visuino project that I created for this. You can download and open it in Visuino: https://www.visuino.eu