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Posted: **Fri Jun 20, 2014 6:20 pm**

Hello,

I want to create a robot using my raspberry pi and around 14 servos i have a small budget so whats the cheapest way it can be done? if you could try keep it simple as I'm new to the raspberry pi.

Thanks,
Tom

Posted: **Fri Jun 20, 2014 9:59 pm**

You can control servos directly from the Pi. They need one gpio per servo (control line) so you'd need to use 14 of the Pi's 21 gpios. Doesn't leave a lot of gpios to connect additional sensors though.

You can buy I2C chips to drive servos. Typically they let you drive 16 servos per chip. You just connect the chip to the Pi's two I2C gpios.

Posted: **Fri Jun 20, 2014 11:03 pm**

You can look at Chinese or Adafruit I2C, Pololu USB/Serial servo controllers. Chinese ought to be the cheapest.

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