Sky camera 🎥

[Anonymous]

Hi Dan did I read somewhere you made a home made sky cam if so could you share how you went about it as I’d like to make one for my home workshop 3 meter x 3 meter.
Looking forward to your feed back any hints tips over what kit you used that would be great 👍🏻

[Anonymous]

Happy to contribute for any assistance given after all time is money etc I’m very new to Arduino and coding so as much help as possible will be appreciated.
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[Dan]

Well my first one was merely a proof of concept.
Were I to do it today I’d use a 4 axis motor controller like the RUMBA or RAMPS.
The Makelangelo firmware already supports crude skycam kinematics.
We don’t currently have a kit before skycams because demand is too low.

But feel free to ask questions and post your progress, we’re very interested and happy to advise.

[Anonymous]

Hi Dan finally getting around to try your software to create a crude sky cam, i has purchased 4 nema 17 stepper motors and a MKS GEN V1.4 control board and drivers ,am i right in thinking your software won’t allow manual mode if software doesn’t see motors attached to the control board? Just having quick look before i get carried away and un pack all my bits!

[Dan]

AFAIK the MKS Gen v1.4 board is not currently supported by makeangelo software. Do you have the pin configuration? It could be added.

> am i right in thinking your software won’t allow manual mode if software doesn’t see motors attached to the control board?

> software doesn’t see motors attached to the control board

This confuses me. the software can never “see” motors attached. at best the software gets the correct “hello world, I am a MACHINE_X” and then it knows “oh right, i support machine_x, i will now let you do…things.

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