We build this project with one of our students. This is the home for some of the code modifications.
- Change driver to TMC2209 and control via UART
- New draft PCB to enable UART control of the stepper controllers.
RaspberryPi based miniature observatory. A Python3 project to control a small camera and telephoto lens housed in a miniature 3D printed observatory enclosure. This combines multiple open modules to handle object location, tracking and image capture.
This uses Python3 on the Raspberry Pi and CircuitPython on a connected Pimoroni Tiny2040/Tiny2350 microcontroller.
The physical telescope, mechanism and dome is buildable from the Instructables page. [https://www.instructables.com/Pi-lomar-3D-Printed-Working-Miniature-Observatory-/]
The wiki for pi-lomar is here. [https://github.com/Short-bus/pilomar/wiki]