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turns out it’s…
click to reveal the first one?? 3D printers fill the inside of objects with really lightweight infill, and it's so light compared to 100% filled walls that it takes both less time and ends up being less weight than the fancy truss on the right. Which sucks because I spent such a long time designing that fancy truss only to be outdone by a brick.
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I heard there was a meteor shower tomorrow! So naturally I went out today to see it. First I treated it like any other target and tried to find a good gap in the trees to see Perseus, but then I read online that meteors appear in the full sky, not just at the radiant.
So I lay down on the sidewalk, and 30 minutes later… zoop!
The meteor was super underwhelming compared to the time I spent waiting.
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Everything was very blurry today and I kept wondering why focusing didn’t seem to fix it before realizing it was cloudy.
My custom Pico Bluetooth picture taking button worked great though!
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I take photos using my phone. My telescope shakes when I press the capture button. I have a raspberry pi pico W, which recently added bluetooth. I wonder if I can connect the pico to my phone as a bluetooth device so I could press a button on the pico and remotely take a snapshot
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I got the Andromeda galaxy!!!
Aiming the telescope was a nightmare. “I’ll use a star app to aim!” I thought. I tried downloading Stellarium, it complained about a Google Play error. I downloaded SkEye, and it had some weird gyro issues because it expected the phone to be pointing in the same direction as the telescope, but I use my phone camera to take pics so it was mounted sideways looking at the telescope’s eyepiece.
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I finally finished Hill Mount v3, so I put it to the test. I got the clearest phone-cam Saturn I’ve ever seen! Wobbles still exist if you touch the telescope, but the wobbles are much smaller now and go away if I wait a few seconds or use a short exposure time.
Before the wobbles settle down, if you take a picture with a big exposure time, the wobbles cause the image to have two Saturns.
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