Turn any DC Motor into a Servo Motor

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FLYSKY RC Transmitter: alii.pub/5tc9ft
In this video we will learn how to turn any DC motor into a stand-alone servo motor with a lot of features. Unlike regular servos that have limited motion of 180 or 270 degrees, this one has unlimited range of 360 degrees and in addition to that we have the ability to adjust the range of the rotation to whatever value we need. We can also set a custom center point, we can adjust the responsiveness, it has continuous rotation mode and it can be controlled through an analog input, digital input from a RC receiver and using the serial monitor from our PC.
00:00 Overview
04:18 How a Servo Motor Works
05:08 Closed-loop System
06:50 AS5600 Encoder
08:33 Circuit Diagram
10:59 PCB Design
13:09 3D Design - Gearbox
14:45 Assembling the Servo
17:36 Bootloader and Programming the Servo
19:28 Test
22:18 Code
24:37 Outro
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@HowToMechatronics 9 ай бұрын

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@etmax1 8 ай бұрын

I have done a lot of soldering of small components and if you don't want to go the whole paste mask route I suggest you get some 0.35mm solder instead of the 0.56 or 0.71 which you are using, it dramatically reduces blobs and bridging. Also for soldering QFN's and SOIC's it's advisable to use a no clean gel Flux, I use Multi-core BGA flux but there are others. I also like to use a low temperature solder (~180C). as it flows much nicer and reduces risk of thermal damage if you have to do rework.

@vikramnageshwarrao 4 ай бұрын

I have a hall effect encoder, IBT_2 motor driver, Arduino Uno and flysky transmitter receiver. I want to run brushed dc power window motor as servo type. how to get arduino code for this

@aviator267 9 ай бұрын

You are doing a great job for the community. Thank you for these informative videos. You’re amazing

@HowToMechatronics 9 ай бұрын

Happy to hear it, thank you!

@piconano 9 ай бұрын

The PID needs work. It overshoots a lot.

@enteente6027 9 ай бұрын

I was thinking that too. It should definitely not be overshooting that much with such slow movement. The whole point of a servo like this is having fast movement with positional accuracy. Considering he's using a multiturn encoder it might even be smarter measuring the angle of the motor shaft before the gear reduction. That might add some mechanical challenges of where to place the PCB though.

@nrdesign1991 9 ай бұрын

@@enteente6027Measuring the motor shaft angle will make it lose the ability to measure the absolute position of the output shaft, also losing the ability to compensate for play in the gears

@enteente6027 9 ай бұрын

@@nrdesign1991no, you will still know the absolute position of the output shaft since you know the gear ratio, as he is using a multiturn encoder. Play in the gears can also not be compensated either way, because even when measuring the output shaft there's nothing the motor can do about it

@HowToMechatronics 9 ай бұрын

Yep, that's right. I will leave that for another tutorial I guess. Cheers! :)

@giovanni4151 9 ай бұрын

Yeah, was thinking the same. Perfect shield though!

@deone-entity3935 9 ай бұрын

I research on this so long ago, I think u are first one get on this topic thanks alot. I waited so long.

@HowToMechatronics 9 ай бұрын

Glad to hear it!

@maxhouseman3129 9 ай бұрын

I recommend using a switching power regulator instead of a linear one. Reason is that the voltage doesn’t have to be super precise and switching regulators don’t waste the power from converting 12 V to 5 V.

@2150dalek 9 ай бұрын

I tried using one of those small voltage changing switching pwr supply, loses notable current. Perhaps a larger pwr. supply located elsewhere would provide enough amps if you go that route.

@hexidev 9 ай бұрын

@@2150dalekwell yeah your only converting the voltage not the amprage :)

@enteente6027 9 ай бұрын

I don't see that as a big problem here. The only notable devices using 5 V are the atmega, as5600 and the led. I asume all these components together draw less than 10 mA (atmega is 0.5 mA, as5600 is 6.5 mA). The voltage difference is 12V - 5V = 7V and 7V * 0.01 A = 70 mW of power wasted. This is nothing compared to what the motor uses.

@maxhouseman3129 9 ай бұрын

@@enteente6027 yes you are right, I didn’t see that the motor gets 12 V in the first place. Thought it gets also 5 V.

@AnnaVannieuwenhuyse 5 ай бұрын

@@enteente6027 The ATmega328P will use more power than just 0.5mA.

@IdRatherBeMaking 9 ай бұрын

Thank you, this is an outstanding project. I'm adding it to my build list. It looked like the servo is overshooting the position somewhat. I saw a feature you may want to consider researching and/or implementing. I think it was James Bruton who programmed the controller to half the remaining rotational distance and go there, half it again, half it again.... That would allow the servo to ramp down and stop the servo at a more precise point.

@justinc2633 5 ай бұрын

a PID would be better but that would take a bit more of your MCU

@DigiLab360 9 ай бұрын

I wish KZfaq had an option to give 5XThumb ups. You sir, certainly deserve 5X👍

@wing2999 8 ай бұрын

Great video as always! You are my inspiration, man.

@007TiFi 9 ай бұрын

Great work, wanted to build this for a while, saved me a lot of time

@HowToMechatronics 9 ай бұрын

Great to hear!

@lightman500 9 ай бұрын

Terrific job! Outstanding description....thanks for sharing your design

@HowToMechatronics 9 ай бұрын

Glad to hear it, thank you!

@TheAstronomyDude 9 ай бұрын

I like the gears. I've never seen that herringbone geometry before.

@2150dalek 9 ай бұрын

Ingenious. I have a need for something like this.....soon as I finish your RC transmitter project, that is.

@HowToMechatronics 9 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@ismettopal7564 9 ай бұрын

As always another high quality work. Thank You. I hope you will make a self balancing bicycle with reaction wheel one day.

@HowToMechatronics 9 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@enteente6027 9 ай бұрын

Great video and interesting idea. One thing i would add though is two header pins that can be used as external reference inputs or endsrops for driving things like a linear axis

@HowToMechatronics 9 ай бұрын

Thanks! Yeah, that's a good point. I've been thinking about it right now, to make an linear actuator with the same PCB. I mean, the board already has digital pins available, the SPI pins, MOSI, MISO and SCK, which are used only for burning the bootloader, so we can use those as digital inputs.

@enteente6027 6 ай бұрын

@@HowToMechatronicsIt seems you did much more than just some thinking. I really liked your design for a 3d printed linear actuator. I used to work as a test engineer for linear actuators and I probably couldn't habe done it much better myself.

@MaxLevine 9 ай бұрын

Having an option to use Encoder separately (on a daughter board) will be great addition!

@DIYMachineYT 9 ай бұрын

Really amazing video ❤

@TheEvertw 7 ай бұрын

One comment about your PCB: for IC connections, the pad for pin 1 should have a different shape than the pads for the other pins. Usually, pad 1 is square and the other pads are rounded.

@YoutubeBorkedMyOldHandle_why 9 ай бұрын

Super informative video ... thank you. Personally, I'd have made a couple of changes: 1. My opinion: the 328p has been over-hyped because of the Arduino community, but by today's standards it has some issues, so I'd use something else. Being 8 bits is probably not an issue here, but it's more expensive than 32 bit alternatives, such as the CH32V003 or the ESP32-C3. Besides this, Atmel(Microchip) debuggers are 'really' expensive and the 328p is very easy to brick. Even one of the newer ATTiny chips would be a better choice. 2. I had an issue with pcbway, so I much prefer JLCPCB. They are very reliable, high quality and probably cheaper anyway. They just don't advertise as much. Otherwise, Great project ... looking forward to more.

@Factory400 7 ай бұрын

The 328P not 'hyped' as much as it is easy to leverage a ton of available code and support. I put it in a lot of my commercial designs, not because it is amazing, but rather because it is easy. I have a lot of code ready to go so firmware dev cycles are short and the final performance is easy to predict.

@AjinkyaMahajan 9 ай бұрын

Very nice project. I will try out but only issue is that i lack 3d print design. Cheers !!

@TNERA 9 ай бұрын

Very nice presentation! For future servo discussions, can you indicate the torque you were able to achieve with the home build?

@apbosh1 9 ай бұрын

What's it like to actually complete a project that works? I've always wondered lol. Very nice design!! Thanks for sharing.

@temyraverdana6421 9 ай бұрын

It's an amazin project. Thanks a lot for share your study

@HowToMechatronics 9 ай бұрын

Glad to hear it, thanks!

@sahiedu 9 ай бұрын

What an amazing video! Are you planning to use this custom servo in another project?

@cat-cambodia1801 7 ай бұрын

Good job friend 🤩

@noweare1 6 ай бұрын

Very useful video, thanks

@nickush7512 9 ай бұрын

Great work Dude :)

@Chsch5 9 ай бұрын

What tool was used to make the circuit diagram? It’s very nice!

@bonafide9085 9 ай бұрын

The way to solder microcontroller pins is not one by one, but add a decent amount of soldering tin basically soaking multiple legs by keeping the tin liquid, tilt the board to use the gravity and just pull the soldering iron slowly, it will attract the tin and leave just enough tin on the pins. I usually start soldering the microcontrollers to my boards and then the smaller parts. Nice project as usual! Thank you for sharing!

@309electronics5 9 ай бұрын

I just tap the board to the table so the solder falls off..thats how i managed to remove a big short when i was soldering a new nand flash for my router

@HowToMechatronics 9 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@UdhamsArtAndCraft 9 ай бұрын

Plz make video demonstrating mpu9250 and calculating ots roll witch and yaw from accelerometer, gyroscope and magnetometer

@jasoncoker5369 8 ай бұрын

Awesome video!

@Allan-mf1he 9 ай бұрын

Awesome stuff. I am a copier tech and there are ready to go gearboxes with DC that just need your circuit. I have made DC servos using photo interrupters but not close to 4096 accuracy. Great content! Did you use onshape for the PCB design?

@GNARGNARHEAD 9 ай бұрын

great project. a tip for your soldering, bring the solder in first and use it to transfer the heat to the board 😉

@HowToMechatronics 9 ай бұрын

Thanks! I'm trying. :)

@grahamnichols1416 4 ай бұрын

Excellent explanation. Here, take my subscription.

@makis_chatzopoulos 7 ай бұрын

Excellent work!!! Thank you for your valuable information. What gear (camera, lens) do you use? I need something similar for my lectures.

@GoatZilla 7 ай бұрын

Neat project. It would be interesting to pair that Hall sensor with a wireless controller like an ESP32 in case your "output" is actually physically pretty far away from the drive section.

@savageolatunde6731 9 ай бұрын

Please which software do you use to draw the pcb and 3d redering. Which software did you use to design the circuit diagram

@scalt8367 9 ай бұрын

That's a superb video, great job ! I was wondering how do you make your schematics ?

@HowToMechatronics 9 ай бұрын

Thank you! I draw the schematics manually with Illustrator.

@ferdm9646 9 ай бұрын

Next time try knife type K type soldering head for the best results. You can solder better with these. I soldered most of the smd by hand and been doing that for over 15 years and never had a problem also temperature is important, hakko inline temperature control works best too. Cheers

@NaderElgdawy 9 ай бұрын

Are we able to connect & control multi servo motors simultaneously with different IP address?

@user-pt2vd7hk3z 8 ай бұрын

Interesting project, please tell me the values of subrack resistors and the possibility of using a more powerful module to control the motor, for example IBT-2 or BTS 7960

@arieverveer665 9 ай бұрын

Most Impressive, Thank you

@HowToMechatronics 9 ай бұрын

Many thanks!

@aliawrang9503 9 ай бұрын

Great video, could you make a tutorial Video on Arduino cnc shield?

@Plastic_Velocity 10 ай бұрын

very useful, thanks

@HowToMechatronics 9 ай бұрын

Glad to hear that!

@ayushchakraborty1222 9 ай бұрын

on pins 5 and 6 in the ckt diag at 8:39 , won't Atmega328p require pull up resistors from drv8871 as they are signal pin? I mean i have started learning hardware for my line tracer bot, and wanted to build my own pcb, this ckt diagram looked helpful for my whole motordriver, thats why am asking.. any help is appreciated.

@pfabiszewski 9 ай бұрын

Awesome video! Consider using a lot more of "external" flux while soldering those SMD components ;)

@HowToMechatronics 9 ай бұрын

Thanks for the input!

@MichaelOfRohan 9 ай бұрын

Can you fit all that on a 8 pin tiny? The 5th pin can be fused for use in logic. I cant imagine youd need more than 5 pins on that 328p.

@MrManojsoparkar 7 ай бұрын

Where to give the inputs of step & direction in this circuit for CNC machine

@stephanc7192 9 ай бұрын

Great video

@mikecarlson6416 8 ай бұрын

very well done

@Will_Huff 3 ай бұрын

Curious if you have tested the torque of this new servo. Are the gears PETG or PLA? Great video. Hoping you make a video creating a servo (close loop positional) BLDC 3 phase motors used in drones and hoverboards!! Seems that is what they use for a lot of robots axis these days.

@Cam-wu9jw 8 ай бұрын

What are the benefits and tradeoffs of such a project as opposed to simply buying a servo with the features you desire? Wouldn't this burn out the DC motor if you use it to rapidly swing back and forth?

@villanousvic323 9 ай бұрын

Odd question but could you add a how to on converting the scara robot arm into a 3d printing robot arm, I always see space x and all the big time manufactures of heavy machinery always using 3d printers that are usually arm mounted for a larger project, and I know they use direct metal printing but I would love a how to just to understand it a little better

@diepieche 9 ай бұрын

can you show a closed loop diagram with feedback?

@villageidiot8718 9 ай бұрын

very interesting project and well done.

@HowToMechatronics 9 ай бұрын

Thank you! Cheers!

@BrainSlugs83 9 ай бұрын

If you plan to use this on a battery powered device, I would steer clear of linear regulators like the AMS1117, and instead opt for an equivalent switching regulator.

@user-oo1fp4su1d 9 ай бұрын

We need to read real time temperature on the remote control then order the motor move to adjust speed of blower by the remote control ,can you?

@ismailaksu1140 9 ай бұрын

Which program do you use to draw schematic at 8:34

@antoniosanford4675 9 ай бұрын

Would this drive a treadmill motor? They are 12 volts. I don't know about the amperage.

@Ozzy3333333 9 ай бұрын

Why haven't you tuned the PID loop? You have either too much I or not enough D. Nice project, thanks for sharing!

@HowToMechatronics 9 ай бұрын

Already spent too much time making this project, so I left that for those who will build this project. Cheers :)

@azyfloof 9 ай бұрын

I wonder how easy it would be to code an auto calibration routine, where the motor spins up as fast as at it can, stops as quickly as it can, and measures the overshoot to calibrate the PID values? Have a button that you have to hold down and power the device up to run the calibration :D So many possibilities with this. Even adding an option for BLDC motors. This is a great video :D

@HowToMechatronics 9 ай бұрын

Yeah, there are so many possibilities. Thanks! :)

@JM_Tushe 9 ай бұрын

That's pretty damn cool.

@HowToMechatronics 9 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@shawnalfaro6943 9 ай бұрын

Can this board be made to use potentiometers tho? I rehab robot toys and the vast majority of the motors used are DC servos but unlike hobby servos, the controller circuitry is on the often broken main board. so i have 3 potentiometer wires and 2 motor wires and rather than take apart good hobby servos and use their boards for this, i want to make a drop in replacement thats like the boards in servos. can your circuit support potentiometers rather than magnetic encoder?

@jasonguthrie4691 21 күн бұрын

What software did you use for the circuit diagram? It is very nicely laid out and clear!

@wisestfernando 9 ай бұрын

Impressive ! Awesome ! Great !

@HowToMechatronics 9 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@zoenagy9458 9 ай бұрын

Why the huge overshoot? Have you seen openServo?

@MD_Builds 17 күн бұрын

Great project and good one for me to reference, as im doing a linear servo design at the moment. I have to ask, is the PID configured correctly? Im seeing lots of over shoot and correction happening. If the PID is configured it shouldnt over shoot?

@HowToMechatronics 14 күн бұрын

Hey, thanks! No, the PID was not configured all the way.

@gordondick9634 8 ай бұрын

Where is the schematic showing components and values? Where is the detailed parts list?

@chrismayer8990 9 ай бұрын

Great job! Is the center position permanently stored even without power supply?

@HowToMechatronics 9 ай бұрын

Thanks! Well the default center position is always the same, even after power loss because it depends on the magnet orientation. However those new center positions that we can set with the push button are not stored, they are lost with power loss. However, that can be easily solved, we can store last center position value in the EEPROM of the microcontroller.

@goshenable 9 ай бұрын

Fantastic video! May I ask what field of engineering you went to school for or if you went to school?

@HowToMechatronics 9 ай бұрын

Thank you! Mechatronics, of course. Cheers :)

@googleyoutubechannel8554 5 ай бұрын

This is a fun project, but I thought the AS5600 was supposed to be pretty good, within 1deg, looks like you're getting a ton of slop, 5-10deg in your position control?

@d580602 8 ай бұрын

Good job!

@HowToMechatronics 8 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@hernancurras 9 ай бұрын

This is an engineering marvel. @howtomechatronics... question... how do you "home" this servo? Do you need an endstop? I'm asking on the continuous rotation mode. I would need to use them on a Sailboat, and a multiturn potentiometer (near ˜10 turns from end to end) is not an option (humidity environment).

@HowToMechatronics 9 ай бұрын

Thanks! Well yeah, you need to have an end stop for homing for making use of the continuous rotation mode.

@MaxPivovarov 9 ай бұрын

It would be cool if it were possible to use the bldc motor.

@Dasol0246 8 ай бұрын

Why not use a common microcontroller like ESP32?

@pondechkoonkadee9614 7 ай бұрын

R4,R5 How much resistance is there?

@bimodesign1815 8 ай бұрын

Then the PCB design is now good to go? With no problems?

@Dasol0246 9 ай бұрын

Do you sell completed units?

@clemtunnell5836 8 ай бұрын

Thanks

@TilmanBaumann 9 ай бұрын

The servo in the video has quite a bit of overshoot. But that's just a matter of PID tuning

@hernancurras 9 ай бұрын

Is the code somewhere posted?

@ArielBaravalle 9 ай бұрын

good work !, i try to order pcb and the web detect a 4 layers , but is a 2 layers . where i can download the firmware? , don't see the link in description. thanks

@HowToMechatronics 9 ай бұрын

Thanks! The PCB is 4 layers. The middle layers are for GND. The source code will be available in couple of days on the website article.

@TheEvertw 7 ай бұрын

When soldering SMD components, tin only a single pad and solder the device to it. Then the other pads can then be soldered while the IC is being held in the right position by the first connection. DON'T tin multiple pads, as the bumps of tin will prevent correct positioning of the device.

@JeremySpidle 9 ай бұрын

Clean that soldering iron tip!! It will make your work much easier :)

@HowToMechatronics 9 ай бұрын

Thanks for the iron tip tip! :)

@Suryatech007 3 ай бұрын

Can you share project details

@tonalliisaiasgarciagarcia3973 6 ай бұрын

I loved

@RalphSmith-ed2xk 5 ай бұрын

I have the boards I ordered from PCBway (a great company BTW) and am getting the components together. A few things though, can you provide a more complete schematic that corresponds to the component numbers on the PCB? I am having to reverse engineer the board to match all of the capacitor and resistor values with the diagram provided, and it is very time consuming and can lead to mistakes. Also, there are many components that you don't source (i.e. center select button, chip resistors with sizing, SMD electrolytic capacitor, etc.) I had to research the chip resistors and found they were 0805 resistors, which would have been nice to know beforehand, as I already had 0402's on hand and thought they would work before I received the boards. Anyway, other than that I love this project and am looking forward to working on it.

@gokulkrishnan2317 2 ай бұрын

Bro what is the value of c11 capacitor in the PCB board

@RalphSmith-ed2xk 2 ай бұрын

@@gokulkrishnan2317 c11 is the 100nF capacitor that is coming off the AREF leg of the Atmega328p.

@phakalanep7241 6 ай бұрын

I have noticed you don't answer any of the questions supporter post????

@abrampl 9 ай бұрын

It has some backslash ... goest to set deg, passes it, then back a little....

@manbox866 6 ай бұрын

can you pleas make a proper flight controller for drone

@Suryatech007 3 ай бұрын

Can this pcb with components available

@tienanma6045 9 ай бұрын

you may try other control methods, maybe the overshot can be avoided

@VeganRashad 5 ай бұрын

OMG!!! I want to do this with a Crown Vic or Chevy Malibu window/ wiper Motor.

@chrisBruner 9 ай бұрын

Are you making the source code available?

@HowToMechatronics 9 ай бұрын

Yep, they will be available soon on the website article.

@kide2010 5 ай бұрын

Хороший драйвер получился. Я взял ASMC- 04 драйвер и модуль AS5600, хочу заменить родной потенциометр магнитным as5600. Шестерни каким пластиком печатали?