July 2024 update
Instructables builds There are now 9 builds listed on the Instructables website, I’ve also had contact from other builders, I guess there are around 20 telescope builds out there. So there’s a small – but amazing – community forming for the telescope now. To create a sort of support group for the project I’ve created…
February 2024 update
Instructables builds There are 5 ‘I made this’ posts on Instructables now for pi-lomar, and a few other builders have been in contact with questions and suggestions over the last two months. I’m really looking forward to seeing what people manage to do with the telescope and get some feedback and improvement ideas. GitHub for…
January 2024 update
Testing Pi-lomar on the Raspberry Pi 5 Will Pi-lomar run on a Raspberry Pi 5? Spoiler alert! No. Not yet. The camera and GPIO libraries have changed, but how close is it to working? Interestingly more of the required packages that made the RPi 4 Buster build tricky seem to be pre-installed in Bookworm now.…
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