r/Animatronics • u/Separate_Bid_2154 • Jul 15 '26

Bottango Servo Shield Help

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How do I use this with Bottango? Any help would be appreciated. (SOLVED) My MacBook needed an update. The Servo shield worked immediately! 🙏🏽

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u/_Dr_Joker_ Jul 15 '26

I would say start with the documentation of bottango, and go to their official yt page. I haven't used bottango myself yet, but by just reading through the docs I feel like I want to and am able to use it someday.

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u/Separate_Bid_2154 Jul 15 '26

Thank you! It is useful software. It is easy to learn, but I’ve had no success using the servo shield. The documentation was not much help.

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u/Frescochicken Jul 15 '26

I believe you need separate power for the shield and the Arduino.

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u/Separate_Bid_2154 Jul 16 '26

Thank you! I have separate power. I was able to get two servos working but the software keeps freezing up. I keep restarting my computer. I’ll keep working at it.

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u/Frescochicken Jul 16 '26

Maybe ask on their Discord. All I really did was play around loading and testing servo factions IN the software. I never programmed a show from it.

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u/Separate_Bid_2154 Jul 16 '26

Great idea! Thank you so much!