Wire Servos

[Mr. Altaco]

I've got an idea, wired servo motors. 2 inputs, Angle and Torque. Torque is obvious. Angle will make the wheel turn to the specified angle. this would make all sorts of things possible.

[Maximized]

Would be extremely useful, but I doubt that it's even possible

[mrspandex]

Very possible already. Wire an angle in as input for the thruster. This gives you propotionaly control. Of couse, this isn't nearly as efficient as a servo, but it can do the same job.

With the pid controller being written in the help section, control via this method will be even more precise.

A self-contained servo could be very useful though.

[Black Phoenix]

It's easy to do with a ballsocket, and a hydraulic, and a wheel. Guess how.

[Tad2020]

Maybe if you make two motor constraints on the same spot (I don't know if this is allowed) and make them work against each other to give precision movement. At least it might allow for breaking.

[ShaRose]

Yeah, I'd kind of like this too.

[Bajenovskii]

This would be perfect to mount cameras on.

[rich_is_bored]

It's easy to do with a ballsocket, and a hydraulic, and a wheel. Guess how.[/b]

I think I know where you're going with this as you can control the length of a hydraulic in absolute terms. Although I don't know how you'd do it with a single hydraulic and I'm not sure how a ballsocket would be of any use.

You have me awfully curious. Care to elaborate?

[GotenXiao]

Servos for great justice.

[1xinfusion]

for servos made with hydraulics, i think there is already a thread, use search.

but what if we just want a servo, without hydraulics or thrusters or winches , is it possible to code a servo in lua ?