At  http://www.seattlerobotics.org  click on the encoder link. Somebody has submitted a multi servo serial controlled
servo controller.
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On Sun, 19 Jan 2003 08:27:18
 Byron A Jeff wrote:
>On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 01:46:56AM -0800, Aaron Moore wrote:
>> Hey everyone thanks for you input so far. Here is a link to an evolving
>> documentation of what I am doing:
>>
>> http://www.vi2.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=93
>>
>> It describes my project in pretty good detail, and you can see what I am
>> trying to do with the PIC.
>>
>> My major question I'm trying to solve right now is which language to
>> program with.
>>
>> Second question would be getting some help with looking over the parts
>> list for designing my projects. I want to make sure I have all the parts
>> and everything right.
>>
>> Appreciate everyone's input!
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>In short Aaron needs a 8 port serial port controlled servo controller.
>
>Did you take a read here?
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>http://www.digitalnemesis.com/ash/projects/picservo/servo8.htm
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>BTW for this task any language will work as long as the USART is in hardware.
>I'm not sure you can hardware PWM of the period that servos require. In
>addition no PIC has 8 PWM outputs anyway, so you'd have to do it in software
>using one of the timers.
>
>BAJ
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