ISS Tracker

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  Side View

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  Topish View

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  This is the ISS Tracker with the Black Arrow

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  The ISS Tracker is pointing in the correct distance

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  Our teammate shows off the ISS Tracker when he should be getting rest instead

Inspiration

We got the inspiration from the fact that Avidh's sister didn't know what the ISS is.

What it does

This was built to track the International Space Station.

How we built it

We built this using a wooden pole, an Arduino Uno, a duct tapped cardboard arrow, nema-17-stepper-motors, adafruit-v2-motor-controller, an arduinoc, and python.

Challenges we ran into

The first challenge was, getting serial data from a Python script to an Arduino onboard the sign through USB. The Arduino, being an external device, relies on USB Serial for almost all communication back to other computers, so when one serial port was occupied by the incoming traffic from the orbital propagation script, the Arduino was unable to reply back stating that it, in fact, received the message making developing the interface relatively challenging.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

It sorta tracks the ISS

What we learned

We learned that we're probably not going to make a ISS Tracker 2.0 anytime in the near future.

What's next for ISS Tracker

We wanna track the Moon. Although we might have to change the name, ISS Tracker, if we actually do track the moon.

Built With

• adafruit-v2-motor-controller
• arduino-uno
• arduinoc
• cardboard
• nema-17-stepper-motors
• python
• wooden-pole