Cape Ealing

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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 […]

The capeMirror Wiring On the right can be seen the pin mapping. The capeMirror Library Now it’s just a question of combining the following libraries into one: Stepper_Aclr8_2, Stepper_Aclr8_i, Matrix_Steppers, and SerialParse. /* * capeMirror v2a * * created by Ben @ Cape Ealing * 24 January 2010 * */ //******************************************************************** // Initial Definitions //******************************************************************** […]

It’s now a question of drawing together all the arduino sketches (2 accelerating stepper motors, bluetooth, and keypad) together into 1 sketch. In fact, I decided to create a new library (or class / object) called ‘capeMirror’ which would contain within it the following:
1. Control of two stepper motors
2. Control of a keypad
3. A method to parse messages received from the laptop

Introduction In this post I’ve included the most significant files from the capeMirror ASCOM driver. The full set can be downloaded here. The image on the right shows them within Visual Basic 2008 Express. The easiest way to approach them is like this: 1. Set-up the global variables. 2. View the main driver. Module CM_Globals […]

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 […]