A bit frustrated for servo control of Arduino

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Nice day but couple failures. Bad soldering work on my AeroBox and got bad luck on Arduino neither Mega board. Servos were just not acting right.

I guess something wrong in power output. I build hexapod before by using SSC-32 servo controller and it works fine. Perhaps the power drain went crazy from servo when they all act at once, sometimes they just stoped. Should I looking for servo shield with external power and some IC control the power drain?

Let me post the Phoenix I build before. I just "play by the book" to complete this suker. It works fine expect I still don't know how to  do that GP Player thing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU3Mcp3E6ts

Anyway, I just wanna say that even this hexapod works perfectly, I still wanna challenge myself to build one with using other board, controller and program it without using "Ready to run" code.

Just a reminder, I have no background of electronic or computer science but just passionate to build these robots. I am very pleased and appreciated for any input that you great people could advice or suggest me. Thanks a lot!!

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZFO_8hH7QY
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Hi

This is probably not related to your problem but on an Arduino project everything worked fine until iI upgraded to IDE 0018. And all the servo motions were completely random. It seems to be some conflict with a softserial library so if you’re using that, there might be a problem. But as you’re on a mega, it’s probably not that.