playing with arduino servo motors and potentiometers

i was playing around with ideas and i was using a 10k ohm potentiometer and a servo motor. the most problem i had with this was making a the servo motor and mechanism to move a sliding door of some sort in this small compartment i made. it didn't turn out to well and it was poorly crafted. on top of that. i wanted to create a switch that would light up the inside. so the person was able to see.

here is how i hooked up the servo with the potentiometer on the arduino