I think AMSAT-UK even has software available.
And with the addition of a bit of EEPROM, you could even pre-load the controller with ephemeris data for several satellites for several days in advance. Emergency / field-day / portable operation without needing a computer.
Add a bluetooth module and an Android app, and you could have an all singing, all dancing, full-featured satellite station in a briefcase.
I'D buy one...
On 02/23/2013 10:01 PM, Lizeth Norman wrote:
Samudra and the gang, The bee's knees would be an Arduino Mega 2560 talking over one of it's serial ports to the pc. Using the output of the Orbitron (or insert your fave rave software here) DDE server to drive the microcontroller. There are enough digital/analog pins to drive/slave anything from there. Simple serial port setup. Repeatable. Extensible. The chip has several other HARDWARE (i.e has it's own hardware buffers for i/o) serial ports for more and more fun stuff. Have a look on youtube or google for code to drive steppers / selsyns.. Norm n3ykf _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb