I've now got the computer querying the FAA's flight data for my zone overhead and displaying the data on-screen with headings.
I'm now thinking of installing a controller board for what would typically be a 3D printer or CNC machine to point a camera toward the inbound airplane for the purpose of documenting chemtrailing activities.
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Michael Blankenship
I’m now prepping the stepper motor rig so that it can programmatically point a Raspberry Pi camera at each airplane. This is leftover from a previous coding gig for a 3D printer.
Michael Blankenship
I now have the python code sending the heading and elevation information to the Smoothieboard so that it can adjust the first two stepper motors. If I increase the radius of interest to, say, 250 miles then the steppers will repeatedly point as necessary to the location of the planes in the FAA's li... View More
Michael Blankenship
The Smoothieboard above seems like a fair amount of overkill so I’m reviewing my options. This one includes an Arduino Uno R4 Plus board with a 6612 Motor Shield and a NEMA 17 stepper motor. It appears to be working in this configuration borrowing the 12V brick from the test rig above.
