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by Rebelgecko 1977 days ago
Cool! I wonder how the pointing accuracy is? When we made something similar for a project that was a big problem with the Az-El servos. Is the microcontroller propagating TLEs itself or is that being done on the controlling device?
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The accuracy is designed to be approx 1 degree. The current microprocessor code only handles full degrees. But since I hope to get enough traction to afford developing upgrades, using encoders and higher gear ratios could give a higher precision.

The positioning and calculating of TLEs happens in the android app. Hopefully I can also offer drivers for other software like Gpredict later on.