Barn Door Tracker Arduino

So i measured a nice and constant 7 255e 5 radians second over 10 minutes.

Barn door tracker arduino.

Hi i am a retired electro optical and controls systems design engineer having also served an apprenticeship as an optical instrument maker in the early 60 s. Posted april 24 2018. David hash s arduino barn door tracker university student david hash now an aerospace engineer updated peterson s build with an arduino pro microcontroller 1 8 stepper and pololu microstepping driver board to give 3 200 microsteps per rotation figure b. Calibrating the barn door tracker with a digital level.

Arduino controlled barn door star tracker 30 mar 31 2015 05 33 pm. You can however make a 6 wide board and use a 4 hinge but you may give up some stability. That means we want to spin our barn door tracker at a rate of 360 degrees every 24 hours which comes out to be 0 25 degrees per minute. 19 thoughts on building a barn door mount part 1.

Acquired data with least squares linear fit. Note also the red dot sight for alignment. A smart barn door tracker with arduino. Arduino controlled barn door star tracker read 12523 times previous topic next topic.

Arduino stepper motor control john barton wood april 4 2014 at 8 10 pm. Assembly setting up your door tracker. I want to use my arduino uno to control a stepper motor for a barn door tracker. Cut your two blocks of wood pieces into 13 x 4 pieces.

By arun289 april 24 2018 in diy astronomer. Eurotrax on mar 30 2015 01 03 am. Arun289 12 arun289 12 vacuum. Then i let it run with my tracker for a while and did some least squares fitting to see how it was working.

No arduino no stepper motors no gears just a simple motor turning a threaded rod this barn door tracker rotates your camera at the exact same rate as the rotation of our planet a requirement for taking long exposure photos. I know the arduino will be able to handle the stepper motor with a stepper motor driver but is the arduino uno powerful enough and have enough inputs for adding a lcd screen to it and some buttons for changing input values.