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Handpad progress, griz11

Handpad progress

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Changed up the layout and I've gotten the handpad and the weather station hooked up to the Arduino Mega now. They are coexisting quite nicely. Still have the focuser piece and the dew heater piece to put together to complete the whole project. But its moving right along. Weather here has been too bad for any imaging so this and Pi tutorials are keeping me going. Might get a break tomorrow but with all the rain lately the atmosphere will be full of water and its really soft in the yard so might not get any imaging done. The red/blue box will display the status of my battery pack the other slider is for brightness of the display and the page key will flip to the other pages devoted to the other functions. I wanted to use tabs at the top but I'd have to do an object for that from scratch. Not familiar with the code yet to take that on so I'll use a button for now. I did run into a glitch when I tried to merge the code for the handpad and weather station functions. There is only an init and main loop with the Arduino. Can't find a away to write a bunch of procedures and have them called from the main loop without putting them in a library. So thats what I'm up too right now. So looks like each part of the project will generate a library and the main loop will call those. The other option is to write it all in the main loop. Very messy and not maintainable. Sooner or later you paint yourself into a corner and have to do libs anyways so might as well do them from the start.

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