From: Gord T. <gt...@sh...> - 2002-07-26 03:15:11
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Hi there: You may recall I was planning on helping out with this project just over a year ago - at the time I was working on building a Mel Bartels altaz dobbie and volunteered to work on the LX200 driver. Alas, many thinhs happened last year to mess up my best intentions to get a scope up and running and help with NOVA - I had to shut my company down due to the tech meltdown, had to find a job, had to deal with all the pain of a near bankrupty, and to top it all off, had a baby in October :) I am however back in the swing of things - I realized I had niether the time nor the mechanical skills to get a telescope built that I would be happy with so I sold off my 13.1" dobbie gear and ordered a Meade DS114 with an Autostar #495. Works great, but sitting next to the scope with a laptop basically sucks so I'd like to hook the scope and the 3COM HomeConnect webcam I'm using for pictures to a LINUX box and control it with Nova. So, what I'd like to do is put LX200 on hold for the time being and develop an Autostar driver for spiderd (Autostar is a subset of LX200 as far as I know). I'm a relative newbie to LINUX programming although I've been coding in C for Windoze for years so bear with me. Having trouble building things right now, will ask questions once I know they're not stupid newb questions :) Sound like a plan? Thanks! Regards, Gord |