Servos with the Arduino
Channel: Jestin Stoffel
Date: 2011-12-28

In this video I cover the very basics of using a servo with the Arduino, by using the servo.h library.  To do this project, all you need is an Arduino, a servo, and some jumper wires.  This whole project should take less than 10 minutes to set up, but you can spend hours tinkering with it afterwards if you want to make the servo do new and creative things.  A diagram of the circuit can be found here:  http://www.mediafire.com/?98u56vjtp71jzsb

If you want to see a servo in use in a project, here are some of the projects I have done with servos in the past:

Wii Balance Board controlled labyrinth (Labywiinth):
http://www.labywiinth.org/

Talking Head of Stephen Colbert:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxzNRezsckg - prototype
http://blip.tv/makerbot/the-stephen-colbert-makerbot-talking-head-5258488 - featured on the Colbert Report