An Orrery/Planetarium driven by Raspberry Pis #PiDay #RaspberryPi @Raspberry_Pi

User DeMoor_Orrery on the Adafruit Forums has posted details on a beautiful wooden Orrery:

This planetarium (a mechanical model of the planets in our solar system) consists of 6 planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn) who are in orbit around the sun. Each planet has its own Raspberry Pi Zero W, a stepper driver (Adafruit Motor Bonnet) and a stepper motor (NEMA 17).

On a website any date can be entered after which the website sends out a string with the positions for each of the planets. The Raspberry Pi picks the position up via WiFi, calculates the position and takes the steps necessary with the stepper motor.

Read more in the Adafruit Forums and the project website.


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