[amsat-bb] Re: PIC rotator control

[Andrew Rich]

Sounds nice.

One thing I have to keep an eye on is power being drawn from the USB if I am 
to use any sort of relays




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gordon JC Pearce" <gordonjcp at gjcp.net>
To: <amsat-bb at amsat.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 5:45 PM
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: PIC rotator control


> On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 07:20 +1000, Andrew Rich wrote:
>> Thanks
>>
>> Yes a small 10 inch laptop could do the work, predict would be used and
>> frequent kep updates
>
> I'm looking at using a mini2440 board for just such a thing - ARM9 CPU,
> masses of GPIO, a couple of serial lines, USB host *and* slave ports,
> and a 3.5" colour touchscreen ;-)
>
> Gordon MM0YEQ
>
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