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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 […]
formatting code for blog
one of the issues that vexed me for a while was how to format code extracts in this blog. I wanted a system that could be used for a variety of different languages (c++, visual basic, css, php etc) and could be expanded […]
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 […]
bluetooth: a wireless arduino (nearly)
having got the stepper motor running the next thing to do is to send signals to the arduino chip (the ATMega 168) over bluetooth. for an arduino intro see this post). the bluetooth chip i picked up is a […]
