<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Interesting overview, but low on details.</div><div><br></div><div>Seems he retained all the functionality of the existing controller, and just added WiFi to it. No small feat, given that he had to find out which wires on the Celestron controller to solder to ...etc.</div><div><br></div><div>Not sure how he was able to interface with INDI (an open source standard for interfacing astronomical devices).</div><div><br></div><div>The project I am involved with, OnStep takes that a step further and replaces the entire manufacturer controller with an open source GPL firmware that has WiFi, INDI support, ...etc. </div><div><br></div><div>For those interested, here is a Youtube playlist that I did regarding OnStep</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZukVlnRom-3YhPkIIvXWJqaCuHc1_qj5">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZukVlnRom-3YhPkIIvXWJqaCuHc1_qj5</a><br></div><div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 3:47 PM CrankyOldBugger <<a href="mailto:crankyoldbugger@gmail.com">crankyoldbugger@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>This is mostly for our in-house star gazing expert Khalid, but I just got my online MagPi magazine and there's a short article in there about using a Raspberry Pi to control a telescope:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi-issues/MagPi79.pdf?utm_source=Raspberry+Pi+Press+Newsletter&utm_campaign=5022563fb1-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_MagPi_77_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e2ce89f288-5022563fb1-495320715&mc_cid=5022563fb1&mc_eid=50bb6975a3" target="_blank">https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi-issues/MagPi79.pdf?utm_source=Raspberry+Pi+Press+Newsletter&utm_campaign=5022563fb1-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_MagPi_77_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e2ce89f288-5022563fb1-495320715&mc_cid=5022563fb1&mc_eid=50bb6975a3</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div>
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