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stepper: accelerating with new arduino library
Next up, a way of accelerating and decelerating a stepper motor. The mount can’t just whack in to top speed it needs to start off slow and speed up. So the idea is to be able to set the min speed, max speed, and the number of steps taken to accelerate. The result looks something […]
stepper: arduino driven motor
So, first step (excuse the pun) is to get the arduino to drive a stepper motor. ultimately there will obviously be two (one for the altitude axis, the other for the azimuth). i got both these steppers from […]
Arduino – first light…
So this is the ‘brains’ of the binocular mirror mount. or at least this is the gadget used to programme those brains. it’s an arduino (pronounced: “aard-ween-oh”), as if you hadn’t guessed. The idea is to programme the chip to receive commands from a laptop (via bluetooth) and then move the two stepper motors accordingly. in time, it might get a bit more advanced – for example having direct ‘user control’ via a keypad as well as receiving instructions from a laptop.
