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I’ve heard it mentioned that the Avayan Electronics driver board is no longer available. There are of course many other driver board that can be used with the Sun Harvester shield. One example is the Easy Driver board. If you go … Continue reading →

I finally had the chance to document the Linear Actuator based heliostat that I built. In general, linear actuator based heliostats can be a pain, so I don’t know if you really want to bother building one. I did need … Continue reading →

I have recently realized that the majority of the individuals I have encountered who are interested in building either a sun tracker or a heliostat are in fact students. For whatever reason, most students seem to prefer to communicate with … Continue reading →

I’ve just gone through a bunch of the out of date documentation pages and brought them up to speed. Most of these pages were out of date because they did not clearly reference the way the Sun Tracking / Heliostat … Continue reading →

The Open Sun Harvesting Project page is now up and running! Also, The Open Source Sun Tracking / Heliostat Project has been renamed. Although descriptive, having to type the entire “The Open Source Sun Tracking / Heliostat Project” every time … Continue reading →

The forums have just finished an upgrade to version 2.x of the Simple Machines Forum software. The update is something that I had been dreading for quite some time, but everything actually went surprisingly smoothly. The new version looks quite a bit more … Continue reading →

There has been an update to the Arduino Sun Tracking / Heliostat Electronic Control System page if you want to check it out. I added some info about the Arduino board itself, some different options for the RTC, and also … Continue reading →

There has been a couple of bug fixes to the Arduino Sun Tracking/Heliostat Control Program. The current version fixes a bug that caused the stepper motors to lose steps every time they updated the machine’s position. It also fixes a … Continue reading →

(This message is posted in the forum as well, but I’ll post here to once because it’s new and someone might not have noticed.) The spam bots that attempt to enter this site’s forum are relentless. At least one manages … Continue reading →

The transition to WordPress has been a success! It didn’t quite go as smoothly as I had hoped, but it did go about as smoothly as I expected. I’m sure there are still a few bugs in the site that … Continue reading →