All I want right now is to get the driver to work with another app. I got the motor functions working, a long time ago.. But recently I’ve been trying to get the driver to work with 3rd party applications, like UniMap. I even managed to download Stellarium, and I even downloaded the Stellarium add-on, StellariumScope, that can send “slew” commands to an ASCOM driver. Sounds easy enough. But somehow I’m missing a lot of properties, flags, functions, and stuff… I can move the telescope on my own, but building the interface so other apps can speak to it is the challenge. The thing about UniMap is that it has a built-in plate-solver. I don’t know how well it performs compared to other plate solvers, but this one is cool cuz it’s free! Maybe one day I’ll write one too. At any rate, I need to review all my code, and figure out what’s missing. I’m still trying to get a grasp of the telescope-lingo. (Spoiler alert: I’m not a huge astronomy fan) So there’s that chasm to cross, among other things.
Good news, winter break is coming up! Maybe I’ll be able to get it working over break?
David
Things I got to do since the last post :
volunteer at Caltech, building an ant habitat!
fabricate paper masks based on Heero’s and BayMax’s battle helmets
fabricate/CNC an interference pattern from 3 ‘water droplets’ out of foam
design and fabricate a chemistry teaching apparatus (and make 20 sets) in 3 days~
almost pass out on a hike
get ride in a Tesla, almost got to go on the freeway!!
PCC Engineering Club Motorized Telescope Project 