Servo robot with keyboard control

Question

I am currently creating a design project that involves controlling several servo motors for a raspberry pi 3. I want to use a keyboard to control the direction of the motors, and I am using curses to take in the keyboard input. My program runs, and the print function shows the correct key that was pressed, but the servos won't spin. I am using the pigpio library to drive the servos. The code I have is below. Any idea what i am doing wrong? Disclaimer: I am not a seasoned programmer, this is my first project with a raspberry pi and python.

import pigpio
import curses
pi=pigpio.pi()

screen = curses.initscr()
curses.noecho()
curses.cbreak()
screen.keypad(True)


if __name__ == '__main__':

while True:

    Char = screen.getch()


    if Char== ord('q'):
        pi.set_servo_pulsewidth(16, 1600)
        print ("rotate left")

    if Char==ord('e'):
        pi.set_servo_pulsewidth(16,1600)
        print (" rotate right")

    if Char==ord('a'):
        pi.set_servo_pulsewidth(12, 1600)
        pi.set_servo_pulsewidth(13, 0)
        print ("turn left")

    if Char==ord('d'):
        pi.set_servo_pulsewidth(12, 0)
        pi.set_servo_pulsewidth(13, 1400)
        print ("turn right")

    if Char==ord('s'):
        pi.set_servo_pulsewidth(12, 1400)
        pi.set_servo_pulsewidth(13, 1600)
        print ("backwards")

    if Char==ord('w'):
        pi.set_servo_pulsewidth(12, 1400)
        pi.set_servo_pulsewidth(13, 1400)
        print ("forwards")
    if Char == curses.KEY_UP:
        pi.set_servo_pulsewidth(18, 1600)
        print ("telescope up")

    if Char==curses.KEY_DOWN
        pi.set_servo_pulsewidth(18, 1400)
        print ("telescope Down")

    if Char==ord('x'):
        print("Program Ended")
        break

curses.nocbreak(); screen.keypad(0); curses.echo()
curses.endwin()enter code here

Answer 1

If you're new to this, you might find it easier using GPIO Zero rather than pigpio, as it's a more friendly API, and provides a built-in Servo class. You can still use pigpio as your back-end (it's the best one for servos).

Example servo code:

from gpiozero import Servo
from time import sleep

servo = Servo(14)

servo.min()
sleep(1)
servo.mid()
sleep(1)
servo.max()