Controls Planning, Preliminary Firmware/Drivers, Wiring Diagram, and Finishing Touches.

Submission is upon us. Well, just me.
I planned out the full control scheme in a spreadsheet so that I could keep track of it all.

Top level is PINS https://github.com/nitr57/pins, which controls the entire shooting session, stages photos, etc.

Plate solving is handled by ASTAP https://www.hnsky.org/astap.html . This is how the polar alignment mount figures out where it needs to move.

Guiding is handled by PHD2 https://openphdguiding.org/. This is how the equatorial mount figures out where it needs to move to look at targets and track them.

Mid level is handled by Indiwebmanager https://github.com/knro/indiwebmanager . This hosts an INDI server that communicates control signals between PINS and my mount drivers.

Then we have custom drivers https://github.com/ProgrammerTurtle/SpaceMount/tree/main/Control/drivers here that handle transllating control instructions from PINS into actual signals the SKR pico can parse.

Lastly, the lowest level is the firmware on the SKR pico, which is here https://github.com/ProgrammerTurtle/SpaceMount/tree/main/Control/firmware . This is low level motor control, mainly.

That’s it! The last two were written during this session.

Lastly was the wiring diagram and final prep for submission. The diagram is pretty simple, thankfully. Otherwise I just double checked submission requirements and everything in my repo. I think this is the last entry before I ship.

Godspeed!