I'd be interested in doing something similar for controlling a camera.  I also have an extra house satellite dish that I would love to put to use.  I have experience controlling servos with microcontrollers.

-Scott

On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 3:07 PM, Steve Berl <steveberl@gmail.com> wrote:

I notice on the etherpad that someone is interested in a 2 axis control for a radio dish. I'm interested in that also. In particular I want to mount a house satellite TV dish sized antenna on a 2 axis mount for radio astronomy use. It requires smooth and precise, but slow movement.

Who is it that is interested in this project? Can you get in contact with me?

-steve

On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 5:43 PM, <hol@gaskill.com> wrote:

Howdy folks,

We are two days away from the beginning of the second microcontroller project hacking night at sudo room.  As someone suggested, I created a facebookpage for the event.  Please invite people you think might be interested!  I previously ordered 10 ATMega328p chips and crystals, and will have them available at cost ($5) for those just starting out who want a basic controller.

Event Link:
https://www.facebook.com/events/502675869769339/

Also, there is an etherpad to jot down projects you intend to work on in case anyone out there is interested in collaborating:
https://pad.riseup.net/p/microbotics
This will be an ongoing document, and is intended to provide a subsystem-level view of project elements in order to encourage people to join together to work on individual elements or principles where interests overlap in a way that permits a limited scope of collaboration, without having to commit to recurring work on an entire project.

We had some interesting projects last time and I expect even more this time, hopefully with a few people from the last event returning to show what they've done with their projects since then.  Personally I will try to go back and forth between  50% working on 2-3 projects, 30% getting newbies started on their controller builds, and 20% snacking/shooting the shit.  Looking forward to seeing y'all!

Cheers,
Hol
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