Hello, My name is Grozea Ion and I'm building a Pan&Tilt head for a digital camera. Right now I'm using two quadrature optical encoders from a PS2 mouse to get the position of the head with a resolution of 0.05deg. The pan head will move 360deg in H plane and 180 in V plane and will be used mostly for panoramic photos but i also want to use it for night sky photography (star trails, ISS and other objects tracking).
This device is controlled by an Arduino board made by me (ATMega 328 chip) + a TouchShield Slide - here is the arduino + TSS http://www.grozeaion.com/electronics/high-speed-photography/125-gvi-dslr-rc-with-touch-shield-slide.html - here is the CAD for the Pan & Tilt head - second part of the movie http://www.grozeaion.com/electronics/high-speed-photography.html So far almost everything is working except the amount of floating math that ATMega 328 chip is capable. In order to resolve this problem i was thinking that by using a tablet or a phone with GPS+Compas+accelerometer and having on it Google Night Sky, i can send to Arduino by USB or Bluetooth only the values needed to position the head (horizontal angle and vertical angle), this way i will have fast floating math and also a database with objects in the sky. Now, is possible to make a Android application that will access the Night Sky (or directly make Night Sky) and send these values to Arduino? PS: I've just started to play and learn Android SDK under Eclipse, but i'm a fast learner. I also want to port the remote control presented in the movie to Android. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
