Materials List: Control a Servo with Your Phone Using Bluetooth!

  • computer, Windows or Mac
  • Arduino software; download from https://www.arduino.cc/en/software
  • SparkFun RedBoard or Arduino Uno microcontroller and programming cable; an Arduino Inventor’s Kit is recommended (some of its many components are the items listed below), such as at SparkFun
  • breadboards
  • 180-degree servos; one comes with the Arduino Inventor’s Kit recommended above—the generic sub-micro size servo from SparkFun, or obtain higher-quality servos such as the Hitec HS-422 standard size from SparkFun
  • jumper wires
  • 9V battery, such as at SparkFun
  • 9V connector wire
  • Sparkfun Bluetooth Mate Silver, available for at SparkFun; or the SparkFun Bluetooth Mate Gold, available at SparkFun
  • Android phone; note: iPhones will not work with the Bluetooth Mate for this exercise
  • Bluetooth SPP app, or Bluetooth SPP Pro app, by Jerry Li at the Google Play store; the specific app depends on the phone used
https://www.teachengineering.org/makerchallenges/view/cub-2217-servo-bluetooth-phone-arduino-wireless