Idea

The idea for this project is to build a physical satellite tracker that will point to whatever object in the sky is being tracked. Imagine an arrow that can rotate on two axis and point to wherever you want it to. The idea stems from this project. I want to improve upon it and have the object tracked continuously and not only when it's above the horizon. The tracker will be able to move 360° in all directions.

I have already written some code in a different project that takes a satellite as input and generates the necessary data to plot a ground track. This will have to be slightly adjusted to convert from altitude and azimuth to steps for stepper motors.

Components needed for this project would be:

• 3D printed bracket that can rotate on two axis
• 3D printed "pointer" (rocket)
• controller for steppermotors (microcontroller)
• 2x switches to home assembly (not sure what kind of switch to use yet)
• 2x stepper motors
• couple of screws/bolts/nuts to assemble everything

For now the data needed for the stepper motors would be generated on a PC/laptop which connects to the controller board. The controller board then interprets the data and controls the motors accordingly.