Restuffed the LVB tracker with an Arduino Mega. Reused the buttons and 16x2 LCD.
Cost around $35 retail. Sun track, moon track, gps, ancillary pins feature enabled. Drive a digital pin (preamp, relay, etc) from Satpc32's serial console.
Simple to do. Used an IIC display for this one:
https://flic.kr/p/HMCtvy Controller is box velcroed to leg of tripod.
Pics/video:
Instructables forthcoming.
On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 8:58 AM, Vincenzo Mone vimone@alice.it wrote:
Hi folks,
is there anything that does what trakbox does that can substitute it?
I mean something that tracks the satellite moving automatically the rotators and
The radio frequencies?
Thanks
Enzo
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