[amsat-bb] Re: inquiry about homebrew az-el systems

[Gus]

I think AMSAT-UK even has software available.

And with the addition of a bit of EEPROM, you could even pre-load the 
controller with ephemeris data for several satellites for several days 
in advance.  Emergency / field-day / portable operation without needing 
a computer.

Add a bluetooth module and an Android app, and you could have an all 
singing, all dancing, full-featured satellite station in a briefcase.

I'D buy one...

On 02/23/2013 10:01 PM, Lizeth Norman wrote:
> Samudra and the gang,
> The bee's knees would be an Arduino Mega 2560 talking over one of it's
> serial ports to the pc. Using the output of the Orbitron (or insert
> your fave rave software here) DDE server to drive the microcontroller.
> There are enough digital/analog pins to drive/slave anything from
> there.
> Simple serial port setup. Repeatable. Extensible. The chip has several
> other HARDWARE (i.e has it's own hardware buffers for i/o) serial
> ports for more and more fun stuff.
> Have a look on youtube or google for code to drive steppers / selsyns..
> Norm n3ykf
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