[bars] Alive! It's alive!

[KC1SOZ]

That's pretty cool. I wanted to try my hand at making an autoguider for my
telescopes as well, but soon lost interest.

73,
KC1SOZ
Juan


On Sun, Jun 11, 2023 at 11:07 AM Marla A. Wallace <wa1gsf at comcast.net>
wrote:

> I have been working with the Raspberry Pi Pico, myself.  In the course of
> experimenting, I breadboarded a device that sent a canned morse message,
> but my major project was for astronomy: it told me the altitude and azimuth
> to point a camera to take astrophotography of a given object.  That used
> the Pico and a GPS receiver, an LCD display and a little glue logic.  I
> wrote it up for the BARS newsletter a couple of years ago.
>
> Me ke aloha
> -- Marla
>
>
> On June 11, 2023, at 06:47, paulacrock at fastmail.com wrote:
>
>
> Very cool!  I've done a lot of work with Arduinos but haven't yet used
> them in this hobby.
>
> KC1EDA
>
> On Sat, Jun 10, 2023, at 11:04 PM, KC1SOZ wrote:
>
> I find it amazing how easy it is to work with these little Arduino boards.
> This tech is pretty cool stuff. In exactly *one* day I have my little
> ESP32 board and optorelay connecting through bluetooth to my computer and
> sending out picture perfect morse through the CW jack, and all for maybe
> $25. By doing this, I am also picking up morse code much faster. If anyone
> would like to do the same thing with your rig and computer let me know.
>
> 73,
> KC1SOZ
> Juan
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 10, 2023 at 6:17 PM KC1SOZ <kc1soz at bd5.com> wrote:
>
> My Arduino-powered CW keyer has awakened and taken its first steps. I
> always get s kick when my creations wake up and say "Hey! Where in the
> wide, wide of world of sports am I??" 🤣🤣🤣
>
>
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