Using the CC3000 shield with the RedBoard and servos

Wireless & IoT
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I’m trying to use the CC3000 shield with the RedBoard in a project which also requires a couple of servos.

I can get the WiFi to work perfectly on its own, and the servos also are fine on their own. But as soon as I try to both use WiFi and run the servos in the same program, weird things start to happen. Sometimes it works but the servos chatter every time there’s a network request; sometimes the CC3000 initialization never returns; sometimes it’s just really flaky.

I’m thinking the Servo library somehow interferes with the CC3000 library, or there’s a hardware conflict somewhere. Has anyone else had this problem? Any suggestions?

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Got this from a Google search “cc3000 servo libraries.”

http://rsangole.wordpress.com/2014/01/0 … hermostat/

And yes, the libraries do conflict but there is way around it.

You could also move servos without the library, http://goo.gl/8UERUX

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Thanks for the links. I hadn’t thought about moving the servo without the library, but of course that’s really simple. I guess having libraries makes me lazy.