Cape Ealing

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so this was an important day…. the set up runs as follows: 1. the visual basic (Vb.Net) application sitting inside the skymap programme sends out a line of data over bluetooth 2. the atmega168 chip, which was programmed on an arduino diecimila board and is now sitting on a separate breadboard, powered by battery, with […]

Having got the parts (the tricky bit), below is the final wiring of an arduino on a breadboard. The battery holder (from maplins) contains 4 x ordinary AA 1.5v batteries. The trick is to keep an eye on this pin-mapping diagram which shows which pins should have what going into them. Here is the finished […]

So, the next requirement is to be able to programme the chip on the arduino diecimila board, then remove that chip, and place it on a breadboard that will be battery-powered and sit on the mount itself. The chip will receive instructions over bluetooth and then process them (eg turn the Altitude stepper motor 100 […]

capeMirror also needs to be controlled using ‘on-board’ controls (up, down, left, right). Fortunately, it proved pretty easy to programme the Arduino to do this – although this excellent tutorial helped. The tricky bit was the wiring. The Wiring The wiring can be seen on the right. There are four push buttons wired into analog […]

this little sketch along with the vb .Net script below builds on the previous examples, but this time having completed the sketch the arduino sends a message: “[Arduino;Bluesmirf;Baltaz]”. This is then read by the windows .Net application using the SerialPort.DataReceived event in .Net. In short, it appears to my untrained eyes that the windows application […]