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ASCOM driver completed
Hmm. That took a long time. A seriously long time. Anyway, I’ve now completed the ASCOM driver – the software which sits on the PC (within a planetarium programme) and communicates with the mount. The final driver (sitting within SkyMap Pro) looks like this: (I should add that the “hand controller” seen in the picture […]
LCD: SparkFun’s serLCD and NewSoftSerial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skqVepTQMRU The video above shows SparkFun’s serLCD in action using a library (serLCD.h) which inherits all of the NewSoftSerial library functions and then adds a few of its own. The library is set out in full below (with download) but first up, my first sketch using the serLCD (which might help others get a feel […]
keypad: controlling two stepper motors
The next part of the puzzle is to get the keypad to control the two stepper motors. The keypad needs to respond (as the layout suggests) as follows: 1 = up and left; 2 = up; 3 = up and right etc. I also want all this wrapped up in a library so that […]
ascom driver requirements and capabilities
Below is the ‘design standard’ of the BlueMirror driver: 1. It works in a simulator and ‘live’ mode. In simuluator mode all works as in ‘live’ but there are no actual serial commands sent out via bluetooth. 2. It reports RA/Dec (right ascension and declination) coordinates when requested. These are simpy a conversion of the Alt Az coords (which […]
ASCOM download and startup
the final step in building capeMirror is to ensure that it can receive instructions from astronomical software programmes like SkyMap, Cartes du Ciel etc. To do this I used a software platform called the ASCOM standard. The Astronomy Common Object Model (ASCOM) is intended to permit easy communication between different astronomy programmes and astronomical devices […]
