I put together a cardboard dev board so that I can move my set-up around a little easier.
For the astute, you may notice that 2 servos are missing. Unfortunately, they were D.O.A and were completely unresponsive to any commands. That's a whopping 13% of the servos I had ordered. To be fair, at a price point of $3.50, I wasn't expecting much. None the less, you'd think that a servo with a "QA" sticker on the bottom would have been QAed.
Upon opening the servo I found the following:
The capacitor at the top left should not be attached to that wire. A bad soldering job is what is preventing this little guy from doing the only thing he knows how. A little bit of heat from a soldering iron, and some insulating hot glue later, and Voila works like a charm.
Once these guys were working I spent some quality time with the Arduino library again. Found a couple of bugs and squashed them. I've moved the code over to a bitbucket repository for now and will open source it once I'm confident it's not embarrassing.
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