SatSignal Seeker

Inspiration

We wanted something open source that wouldn’t cost a bunch of money and we wouldn’t have to tire our arms holding a beam antenna

What it does

Calculates your current position and the position of a satellite and uses the azimuth and elevation to point the directional antenna toward where the satellite is to in order for us communicate with it

How we built it

With some stepper motors, a raspberry pi, and a box of scraps

Challenges we ran into

Getting one stepper motors to work at all

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Getting both the stepper motors working

What we learned

Don’t use a raspberry to power the external stepper motor driver board and to be more prepared

What's next for SatSignal Seeker

Finish the current prototype and refine the algorithm to track satellites

Built With

• i2c
• python
• raspberry-pi
• stepper-motor