Over the past year or so, I’ve had a project with a friend to motorize a Dobsonian telescope and have it ready by the eclipse of August 2026 in Spain so we could use it at night for looking at a bunch of cool stuff like nebulae and Saturn and whatnot. Well, we fucking made it! If anybody wants to motorize a telescope using OnStepX (open source project) I have a lot of input lmao
It was super cool pressing “go to Saturn” on the phone and having the telescope point itself to the planet. Pretty proud of that. Working together with a friend on a project is some of the best fun I’ve ever had
Over the past year or so, I’ve had a project with a friend to motorize a Dobsonian telescope and have it ready by the eclipse of August 2026 in Spain so we could use it at night for looking at a bunch of cool stuff like nebulae and Saturn and whatnot. Well, we fucking made it! If anybody wants to motorize a telescope using OnStepX (open source project) I have a lot of input lmao
It was super cool pressing “go to Saturn” on the phone and having the telescope point itself to the planet. Pretty proud of that. Working together with a friend on a project is some of the best fun I’ve ever had
whoaa that’s cool af
HOLY SHIT, THAT’S AMAZING
Thanks!! I’m thinking my next project should be an open source metal detector, I’m so excited about the idea and I haven’t seen anything similar.
Sick, dude! Working with a friend on that project too would have been super rewarding ☺️