All, I have to disagree. What we are doing is perpetuating the myth that simplicity is no driver for innovation. We have been able to make our lives much...
... There is one subtoe difference between the Intelliscope and the other similar devices which is easy to fix. Dave Ek can probably do it in 10 minutes. When...
Dave, I'm not sure I understand the full difference between Intellescope and other "BBox" type devices. Here is some output I captured some time ago for...
Dave: I will attempt to cause the merge into the main line code as you suggest. Having accumulated an intelliscope, the sources from Dave Ek to do this port, ...
... The only difference is that the sent "Q" is echod back on the receive line as follows: Q+00000 +00000 initial reading Q+00005 -00476 move scope down ...
... YES! I'm all for USB too, but... with a caveat. I know I sound like a broken record, but the camera manufacturers just MUST buffer their cameras. Same...
Although I've had major problems with USB devices, in principle that sort of interface is suitable for many devices- mice, keyboards, PDAs, digital cameras....
... Yeah, and truly bad if the camera needs to completely tie up the USB bus and CPU for 30+ sec!!!!!!! Way way outside device design guidelines. -- Bob -- Bob...
Does anyone have a FORTH wrapper for the ASCOM object set? Would anyone be interested in using such a thing anyway? Would such a thing add any value over what...
Forth is a language designed for tasks that are best implemented recursively. ASCOM applications tend to be pretty linear and procedural. Forth seems...
... Forth is particularly 'good' for microcontroller applications, with perhaps somewhat limited memory. Unfortunately, it can get slow when dealing with a lot...
... I've written a lot of Forth over the years - mostly with microcontrollers in embedded applications. I have a true fondness for it. Its origins are in...
... for ... to ... Duh, I hit send too early. I meant to add that having said that I can't see that Forth has much use in modern pc-based applications. ......
Surprise indeed! Many thanks Bob and everyone for your posts and links. My idea is to take a time warp back to the old days and control my telescope with a...
Hi, Appropo of not much, I was also deeply into FORTH in the late '60s and mid '70s, both as a professional astronomer working periodically at KPNO, which is...
Hi, Andrew, I'd really be interested in knowing what inspired your question. FORTH is a language that not too many people are familiar with these days,...
Hi Dick, I played around with Forth a long time ago when I was a teenager, just out of curiosity. At that time I wanted to write software for my commodore 64....
... Ah FORTH ... the cannonical write-only language. I suspect more than a few of us toyed with 4th in the past. The classic reference was Leo Brodie's...
Andrew -- PYTHON is an awesome language, and comes with a CLI. You need Python itself as well as Mark Hammond's Win32 Extensions package for Python (which ...
Oh, and Perl can also be run from a CLI within a Windows shell ("DOS" window), and it too has COM hookups. They also have "ActivePython, another Python for...
Bob, John, Many thanks again for the suggestions. Plenty here to keep me out of trouble this weekend(!) Best Regards, Andrew ... Python itself ... (which ......
Hello, I coudn't find any information how to make an elektronics for manual focuser which I have had attached stepper engine which I'd like to operate via...
Hello! I'm a fan od ATMaking and I would like to make an focuser (electronic part) by myself. Do you have any links or web sides with information how to make...
... (electronic part) by myself. ... which will work on the steppers and will be compatibile with ASCOM standards? There is some information on the web about...
You can make any sort of motorized focuser compatible with ASCOM. If you are asking how to make a focuser that is compatible with an existing one, so you don't...
Peter, In any case you'll need to buy the motor (I'm assuming that bit). Take a look at the Robofocus motor. You can buy a motor and control box from those...
... This is what we have done on both the .46m and .76m scopes. RoboFocus motor and controller with homebrew mounts and gearing to adapt to the existing scope...
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