Questions on servos

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Here, i have two questions regarding the servos.\

1- What do i have to do to hack a standard servo for a 360 degree rotation? I don't mean the continuos rotation. Do i have only to cut the plastic part that stop the gear from turn? and than send the signal out of the boundaries 225/75? I just want to make sure before i procede with the hack.

2- I'm using a Picaxe 40X1, so i have 8 fixed outputs where i can use the command "servo" and "servopos". But what about if i need to use other outputs? Like the portC outputs? "servo" and "servopos" don't work with those pins. I read that the position of the servo is determined by the lenght of the signal that the pin send. So, can i send the position doing just this code? And can the servo hold the position?

High portc 1

pauseus 225

low portc 1

Thanks for future answers.

 

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You can’t

You will need to buy a 360 degree servo -they make them. Be sure that it is not continous rotation. These servos work off of the same pulse width that regular servos use. The high/pause/low thing won’t work. A 40x2 allows for servos to be driven by any pin or you can just get an i2c servo controller and do it that way.