This project is work in progress and is not for use or testing yet! Really, you don't want to use it at the moment!

OpenAstroFirmware

Official Firmware for DIY astronomical telescope mounts. This firmware is the 2.x successor of the OpenAstroTracker-Firmware.

Table of Contents

1. About The Project
   • Built With
2. Getting Started
   • Supported hardware
   • Prerequisites
   • Configuration
   • Build
   • Upload
3. Usage
4. Roadmap
5. Contributing
6. License
7. Contact

About The Project

It was a very long and educational time developing, testing and improving OpenAstroTracker-Firmware for all of us. It evolved and grew over time as did our hardware support. Amount and type of supported mounts, components, addons and software tools keep increasing. This is why dev team decided to go one step back and redesign the firmware based on the experience with v1 and community feedback and requests. This firmware aims to bring following improvements over time compared to OpenAstroTracker-Firmware:

Usage

• Easier configuration, flashing and updates
• Improved stability
• Improved/Automated calibration
• New types of addons (these could be among other things Touch display, Mobile app etc.)
• Ability to track "custom" objects (e.g. Sun, Moon, ISS, Comets etc.)
• Support for more types of mounts (OAT, OAM, any further Mounts and their versions designed by OpenAstroTech and retrofitted 3rd party mounts)
• Several new QoL features

Development

• Easier maintenability and extendability
• Automated testing
• Support for modern 32-bit boards to improve performance, accuracy and reduce the need for hardcore optimizations.
• In hardware debugging
• Higher code quality by following best practices and a predefined architecture design
• Ability to test and run main code and test directly on the host pc to simplify issue analysis
• Support and usage of modern c++ features to improve readability and clarity of the code

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Built With

• Zephyr

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Getting Started

This is an example of how you may give instructions on setting up your project locally. To get a local copy up and running follow these simple example steps.

Supported hardware

TBD

Prerequisites

TBD

Configuration

TBD

Build

TBD

Upload

TBD

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Usage

TBD

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Roadmap

• Build environment setup
  • TBD
• MVP
  • TBD

See the open issues for a full list of proposed features (and known issues).

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Contributing

Contributions are what make the open source community such an amazing place to learn, inspire, and create. Any contributions you make are greatly appreciated.

If you have a suggestion that would make this better, please fork the repo and create a pull request. You can also simply open an issue with the tag "enhancement". Don't forget to give the project a star! Thanks again!

1. Fork the Project
2. Create your Feature Branch (git checkout -b feature/AmazingFeature)
3. Commit your Changes (git commit -m 'Add some AmazingFeature')
4. Push to the Branch (git push origin feature/AmazingFeature)
5. Open a Pull Request

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License

Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE.txt for more information.

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Contact

Project Link: https://github.com/OpenAstroTech/OpenAstroFirmware

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