Getting Started

The following tutorial is a quickstart guide for operating a clockdrive system for celestial tracking.

You’ll need the following:

  1. CG-4 German equatorial mount

  2. Nema17 stepper motor

  3. Raspberry Pi 3B+

  4. DRV8824 stepper motor driver

Setup/Installation

Coming soon…​

Run clockdrive

Once the StellarDynamics package is loaded, evaluate the following to compute the step duration needed operate the clockdrive system:

clockdrive := SDClockDrive new stepsPerRev: 200 microstepRes: 1/32 wormGearRatio: 130.
clockdrive stepDuration.
Last modified October 2, 2021: update getting started tutorial (73269fc)