Adafruit Mini Pan-Tilt Kit - Assembled with Micro Servos

Excellent, very easy to use. It uses SG-90 servos, so the voltage range appears to be around 4.8V to 5V.I built an app in iOS that displays security footage from a camera, mounted on this unit, hooked up to a raspberry pi. However the pan/tilt servos themselves are controlled by a Wi-Fi connected arduino that accepts pan/tilt directions from the pi. I eventually plan to remove the arduino from the equation and control it directly from the pi. Works great!

I will be using this assembly for a Pi camera. Looks quite adequate for the job. Good manufacture. The Pi 3B board's GPIO pins provide enough power to operate the servos, without a driver or relay. Tilt range of motion was limited because all the way up at the sky was midpoint for the motor. I repositioned so that midpoint was horizontal and everything is good. I also burned up one servo by wrong polarity power connection. Should be an idiot diode in there to prevent such damage. I nearly gave this 5 stars but for the improper positioning of the tilt motor. I will probably be ordering 3 or 4 more, to finish out my home security camera system.

This was just what I was looking for and hoping it would be. It came to me fully assembled and correctly assembled. I'm going to use the Adafruit Mini Pan-Tilt Kit Assembled with Servos along with the Pixy CMUcam-5 and Zumo Robot and Arduino Leonardo to build the Pixy Pet Robot Color Vision Follower featured on the Adafruit website. I can also use this pan-tilt kit with any other boards I have to make other robots with vision.

Just this side of unusable junk. Works, for a liberal definition of "works".

SG90 servos are notoriously bad out of the box. These were no exception. One of the servos was completely frozen, the other was so poorly indexed that 90 degrees was more like 120. I gave this one back and spent a few more dollars to get some higher quality. A cheapo servo is only good if it actually lands in the same sector as what you were shooting for, otherwise it's not even good to practice with...

This works well. There are similar kits available on amazon but many do not come with the proper parts like servo horns that match with the assembly, hence they require some improvisation to build. For a similar price, adafruit has assembled the unit and it functions without any problems.

The pan/tilt servo assembly came in a thinly padded shipping bag and I was very surprised that it didn't get crushed in the mail.To make sure that the gimbal assembly was not damaged in transit, I broke out my trust servo tester and found that the pan servo was correctly centered looking forward at 1.5 ms of pwm. The tilt servo was way off and would not look straight ahead at 1.5 ms pw. Using my trusty screwdriver I uncoupled the tilt servo shaft from the tilt gimbal, centered the servo at 1.5 ms pwm and then reattached the tilt gimbal to the tilt servo in the forward looking position.The pan/tilt assembly should come properly indexed because most users probably do not have a servo tester at their disposal. Otherwise the pan/tilt gimbal assembly performs as expected.

Not bad.. I broke the teeth off one of my gears too easily but a replacement servo went in easily enough. You can tell it was made for drones or planes because the tilt is intended to be looking downward. I put it on an RC car where I needed it to look upward so I just placed it backwards. It's not super rugged but it's sturdy enough to where the servos won't always be trying to rattle around fighting wobble and play in the movement. Protect it from crashes and it should be fine for any small camera.