Hello, I am Manthos from the SatNOGS [1] project. Some of you may have heard about our project from the hackaday prize[2] . We are a teem of space enthusiasts trying to create an open source ground station work. In order to comunicate with satellites you need a device that points an antenna to the satellite, this device is called rotator. From the first days of the project we realized that there isn't any affordable and-or open source antenna rotator. So, we constructed it. We are now at the third version of our hardware. All the designs are made using FreeCAD (0.13, 0.14 and 0.15), are under CERN open hardware license and can be found in your github repositories[3]. Feel free to clone, copy, change or whatever... For more information you can use our community forum[4]
Some screenshots of our designs:
And some photos of rotators
version 3
and an operating v2 in our hackerspace terrace
[1]
https://satnogs.org/
[2]
http://hackaday.com/2014/11/13/satnogs- ... day-prize/
[3]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBsIIuT5WIE
[4]
https://community.satnogs.org/
