Stream telescope

Inspiration

Access to a quality telescope is very expensive. We wanted to provide a way for star and planet enthusiasts to see at the galaxy from their home

What it does

An Arduino moves a servo that is connected to a camera. The twitch user just has to input: telescope planet uranious

How I built it

We used an arduino uno, servo, and python script to get the messages from twitch

Challenges I ran into

Sending the data to the arduino

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

Being able to get the messages from twitch and getting the camera to work.

What I learned

The complexity behind serial communication between a python script and arduino

What's next for Stream telescope

Have accurate coordinates to point at the stars, and connect it to a physical telescope

Built With

• arduino
• python