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--- projects:bon_accord_webcam [2020/10/29 16:04]
neil
+++ projects:bon_accord_webcam [2021/05/02 14:50] (current)
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-The website was only temporary (I've sinced moved) but with the camera movement interface it looked like this:
+The website was only temporary (I've sinced moved house) but with the camera movement interface it looked like this:
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 ===== Technical details =====
-[[https://motion-project.github.io/|Motion]] was used to stream the output from the USB telescope to a port on the Rasperry Pi.  This was then embedded in an img tag on the front end (refreshed twice a second).  The movement buttons were PHP wrappers to a python command line program, [[http://lukecole.name/usb_missile_launcher|USB missile launcher]].
+[[https://motion-project.github.io/|Motion]] was used to stream the output from the USB telescope to a port on the Rasperry Pi.  This was then embedded in an img tag on the front end (refreshed twice a second).  The movement buttons were PHP wrappers to a python command line program, [[https://www.lukecole.name/research_and_projects/personal/usb_missile_launcher/|USB missile launcher]] ([[https://sourceforge.net/projects/usbmissile/|sourceforge link]])
 This command line program took simple parameters to move the USB missile mount, for example to move the launcher right for 30 milliseconds:
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 ==== Timelapse ====
 {{:projects:bon-webcam-timelapse.mp4?500|Testing out a timelapse}}
+==== Installing USBMissileLauncher =====
+<code bash>
+wget https://sourceforge.net/projects/usbmissile/files/usbmissile/1.5/USBMissileLauncher-1.5.tgz/download -o USBMissileLauncher-1.5.tgz
+tar zxvf USBMissileLauncher-1.5.tgz
+cd USBMissileLauncher-1.5
+sudo apt install libusb-dev
+make
+</code>

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