More GPIO with a Raspberry Pi 2: Controlling a servo with PWM

Today I wanted to make a servo run using the breadboard connected the GPIO on my Raspberry Pi 2, which while it isn't overly difficult, I had to do some research on controlling motors, and then how I would do that with my Pi.

I started off by looking up how I would control the specific servo that I would be using, and as I had thought, I would need to do some pulse width modulation to control it. 

 After that, I connected the wires to the board, the control signal to a generic pin, the source voltage one to the 5V terminal, and the black one to ground.

 

Next, I had to find out how to generate PWM with the Pi.  I found that within the same library I used for the LED blinking, there was the capability to do PWM.  After a bit of research I figured out how to do the PWM with the library, but it didn't exactly do what I wanted it to.  I then realized that the servo motors only moved within 180 degrees of rotation.  So after some googling on how to move the servo in both directions, I found that they expect a signal every 20ms and the width of the pulse determines the position that they will move to. (Source)  So then I set out to have it start on left, go to center, then to right, and loop that sequence.  However despite troubleshooting, I was unable to make it do that, even though to the best of my knowledge the code should make it do so.

Code:

import RPi.GPIO as GPIO

import time

GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BOARD)

GPIO.setup(7, GPIO.OUT)

m = GPIO.PWM(7, 50) #pin 7, 50 Hz frequency

for i in range(15) :

     m.start(0.05) #left

     time.sleep(1) # hold for 1 second

     m.stop()

     m.start(0.075) #middle

     time.sleep(1) # hold for 1 second

     m.stop()

     m.start(0.1) #right

     time.sleep(1) # hold for 1 second

     m.stop()

GPIO.cleanup()

I tried doing something with  "m.ChangeDutyCycle()" as well, but that didn't work either.

The result of the code on the servo is the following 

via GIPHY

Regardless, I suppose I accomplished my goal for the day of simple making the motor turn, which is cool, but full control of the servo would have been nice as well.