Team Stargazer Dan Beard
Problem Statement To build an altitude and azimuth steerable satellite dish, with a receiver or a transceiver for communication.
Solution Take an existing 3 meter satellite dish Add on a Azimuth Motor and gear system Add on position control sensors Take an existing satellite modeling program and utilize it for location control Design motor controls for both Azimuth and Altitude motors
Mechanical Requires addition of a worm drive/gear set Alteration of supports to account for new rotation.
Electrical Overview
Software STK 6.0 : tracking software HC08 : Position Controllers PLC as central processor
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