Adafruit has an excellent tutorial here that will walk you through the steps of connecting your servo directly to the Arduino, as well as adding a potentiometer in later steps, which you can use ...

For those starting out in Arduino, there are tons of resources to get better acquainted with the community and the types of projects you can tinker with.

John Boxall, author of the new book Arduino Workshop, shares a few of the projects from his book on how to get started with the microcontroller. (Click the links to see PDFs of the complete ...