David hash s arduino barn door tracker university student david hash now an aerospace engineer updated peterson s build with an arduino pro microcontroller 1 8 stepper and pololu microstepping driver board to give 3 200 microsteps per rotation figure b.
Barn door tracker arduino.
The arduino board and additional circuitry can be powered with a 7 2 volt nicd battery for portability or a standard plug in power supply.
Then i let it run with my tracker for a while and did some least squares fitting to see how it was working.
Calibrating the barn door tracker with a digital level.
So i measured a nice and constant 7 255e 5 radians second over 10 minutes.
Assembly setting up your door tracker.
Note also the red dot sight for alignment.
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No arduino no stepper motors no gears just a simple motor turning a threaded rod this barn door tracker rotates your camera at the exact same rate as the rotation of our planet a requirement for taking long exposure photos.
That means we want to spin our barn door tracker at a rate of 360 degrees every 24 hours which comes out to be 0 25 degrees per minute.
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The arduino board and its associated shield are mounted on the base of the barn door tracker.
Acquired data with least squares linear fit.