This is the blog for the Grosse Pointe Radio Astronomy team. It will keep you up to date on all the activity's and the current status of the telescope
Sunday, January 25, 2009
programing???
well as usual the telescope is still broke, but only the computer and when i say computer i mean the DOS computer with scope. (I HATE DOS!!). this time we think its a compatability issue with scope (the motor control program) and Tiny (the remote screen program) for some reason it has stoped scope from working right, we cannot get the motors to move at all!!! So I have this idea that some people! (ULMER) dont think will work...The idea is to make our own motor control box and system, along with a program for PC (windows XP) so we dont have to deal with the DOS computer anymore!!!! that would be amazing!!!!!!! but the problem is writing the program, this will not be simpe but we have the code for scope so we at least have a example. If you think you can write this program or want to give it a shot just be warned that it requers sending a output to a control box via a serial port and input from a com port, along with this it needs to work with starry night and look like a Mead LX200 telescope so we can control it with the computer. so if you still want to give it a go send me an email at gpradioastronomy@gmail.com or post a comment. thanks. thats all for now so take a look at the forums and all that good junk!!!!
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