{"id":1161,"date":"2017-12-30T03:04:44","date_gmt":"2017-12-30T03:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/afrotechmods.com\/tutorials\/?p=1161"},"modified":"2020-05-18T04:20:19","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T04:20:19","slug":"arduino-and-servos-how-to-make-a-laser-turret-with-xod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afrotechmods.com\/tutorials\/2017\/12\/30\/arduino-and-servos-how-to-make-a-laser-turret-with-xod\/","title":{"rendered":"Arduino and Servos: How to Make a Laser Turret with XOD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A tutorial on what servos are, how they work, and how to use them. Then I build a laser turret using a pan-tilt servo kit and an Arduino Uno. The Arduino is programmed with <a href=\"http:\/\/xod.io\/?utm_source=afrotech&amp;utm_medium=youtube&amp;utm_campaign=servos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">XOD<\/a>, a free visual programming language.<\/p>\n<style>.embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }<\/style>\n<div class=\"embed-container\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iH9_xtulyws\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/xod.io\/?utm_source=afrotech&amp;utm_medium=youtube&amp;utm_campaign=servos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download XOD<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qxjLH_3US04\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Another XOD tutorial<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B0006O3WVE\/afromods-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hitec HS-311 servo<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B015H5AVZG\/afromods-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sub-micro servo pack<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B01ITK4PEO\/afromods-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Laser diodes<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.digikey.com\/products\/en?keywords=1528-1106\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pan-tilt servo kit<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tutorial on what servos are, how they work, and how to use them. Then I build a laser turret using a pan-tilt servo kit and an Arduino Uno. The Arduino is programmed with XOD, a free visual programming language. Download XOD Another XOD tutorial Hitec HS-311 servo Sub-micro servo pack Laser diodes Pan-tilt servo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1165,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[120,121,122,132,130,131],"class_list":["post-1161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-intermediate-tutorials","tag-arduino","tag-microcontroller","tag-programming","tag-servo","tag-servos","tag-xod"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/afrotechmods.com\/tutorials\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/thumbnail332x187.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrotechmods.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrotechmods.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrotechmods.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afrotechmods.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afrotechmods.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1161"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/afrotechmods.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1224,"href":"https:\/\/afrotechmods.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions\/1224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afrotechmods.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrotechmods.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afrotechmods.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afrotechmods.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}