Tuesday 9 June 2015

Auto Guided Barn Door Tracker - Arduino

Been building a Barn door tracker for Astrophotography that is accurate and also auto guides in both RA and DEC axis using an adapted webcam as a guide scope, The barn door is controlled by an Arduino Uno running two small stepper motors (12v Mini Stepper Motor's 28BYJ-48), this is interfaced with PHD Guiding software using an Ascom driver created for the mount, I'm happy with progress so far, Easy project to carry out that can be done over a couple of weekends, I have not seen any other barn door tracker online capable of auto guiding so maybe this one is a first, If there is enough interest I might do a write up on it at a later date and provide links to my Google drive for the Arduino sketch and Ascom driver.
DEC Axis
Underside
RA and DEC axis
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4 comments:

  1. Unknown24 August 2016 at 06:23

    Dear Timmus, do you think you can share some more details of your tracker. I'm really interested especially in the Arduino part

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  2. Anonymous8 August 2017 at 00:17

    Hey this looks great. Would love to see a write up on driver, arduino and webcam. Thanks

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  3. eRiC1 January 2018 at 10:31

    Hello! I'm very interested in your project. Could you share more info (schemas, components,...)? Thank you in advanced! Good job!

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  4. ahmedali30 October 2021 at 21:59

    This is highly informatics, crisp and clear. I think that everything has been described in systematic manner so that reader could get maximum information and learn many things. door too heavy

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