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DIY Telescope Mount for Stellar Tracking https://hackaday.com/2025/08/25/diy-telescope-mount-for-stellar-tracking/ #equatorialtracking #telescopemount #telescope #hardware
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DIY Telescope Mount for Stellar Tracking - Pointing at stars may seem easy on the surface—just mount a telescope to a tripod ... - https://hackaday.com/2025/08/25/diy-telescope-mount-for-stellar-tracking/ #equatorialtracking #telescopemount #telescope #hardware
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🚀🎨 Oh, look! Yet another tale of a tech enthusiast who thought a $200 tracker wasn't enough, so they over-engineered a telescope mount with harmonic drives and an #ESP32, just to be the Bob Ross of the Orion Nebula. Next up: building a particle accelerator to make better toast. 🥇🔧
https://www.svendewaerhert.com/blog/telescope-mount/ #techenthusiast #overengineering #telescopemount #harmonicdrives #OrionNebula #HackerNews #ngated -
This $10 3D Print Saved My $10000 Telescope Setup
My Takahashi telescope and ZWO autofocuser? Not speaking. Totally incompatible. So I did what any overly caffeinated space nerd would do: I fired up the 3D printer and manifested an adapter out of thin air and PLA.
Did it work? Somehow, yes. Did I measure anything properly? No. But now the focuser talks to the telescope like they’re old friends—probably trauma bonded.
One $10 part. One $10000 rig. One dangerously false sense of engineering confidence. 🔧🧠🔭
#3DPrinting #TelescopeHack #Astrophotography #ZWO #Takahashi #SpaceNerd #DIYFix #AdapterBuild #ObservatoryLife #AstronomyGear #EngineeringFails #ScienceVlog #TelescopeSetup #BudgetFix #PrintAndPray #Autofocus #SpaceProblems #TelescopeMount #NightSkyTools
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This $10 3D Print Saved My $10000 Telescope Setup
My Takahashi telescope and ZWO autofocuser? Not speaking. Totally incompatible. So I did what any overly caffeinated space nerd would do: I fired up the 3D printer and manifested an adapter out of thin air and PLA.
Did it work? Somehow, yes. Did I measure anything properly? No. But now the focuser talks to the telescope like they’re old friends—probably trauma bonded.
One $10 part. One $10000 rig. One dangerously false sense of engineering confidence. 🔧🧠🔭
#3DPrinting #TelescopeHack #Astrophotography #ZWO #Takahashi #SpaceNerd #DIYFix #AdapterBuild #ObservatoryLife #AstronomyGear #EngineeringFails #ScienceVlog #TelescopeSetup #BudgetFix #PrintAndPray #Autofocus #SpaceProblems #TelescopeMount #NightSkyTools
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A DIY Equatorial Mount Using Harmonic Drives - As an amateur astrophotographer will tell you, you just don’t get to capture the r... - https://hackaday.com/2022/11/10/a-diy-equatorial-mount-using-harmonic-drives/ #equatorialtracking #astrophotography #telescopemount #harmonicdrive #teensy4.0 #nema-17 #tmc2130 #onstep #space