It happened. I finally finished motorising my home built StarTracker. I built this thing months ago out of scraps of wood and had been hand cranking it until now. I took it out for a test spin last night and it worked great. I was so excited
The attached pics show the original hand driven model with the milo tin lid handle, and the new improved motorised model with a stepper motor that I ripped out of an old dot matrix printer about 4 years ago (I knew it would come in handy one day!!). I still need to tweak the timing yet as it runs about 2 seconds slow every 60 seconds.
Now the StarTracker is motorised I can do other things while the camera is taking pictures. I just have to walk over to it every 2 minutes to press the shutter again for the next shot.
