Uploaded November 2013 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Simple test hooking up a 5V servo directly to my raspberry pi, controlled via the Python RPi.GPIO library. While this demo shows a successful run, sometimes the servo has trouble responding. This could be due to drawing power directly from the pi, or the software-implementation PWM signal, or a combination of the two. I seem to have better luck with the Python RPIO.PWM library.
Simple test hooking up a 5V servo directly to my raspberry pi, controlled via the Python RPi.GPIO library. While this demo shows a successful run, sometimes the servo has trouble responding. This could be due to drawing power directly from the pi, or the software-implementation PWM signal, or a combination of the two. I seem to have better luck with the Python RPIO.PWM library.
