[nmglug] Spa algorithm, para port, hiliostat project.

[Andres Paglayan]

you may find this link interesting,
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2007/04/hydrasolar_solar_tracker.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890

its a DIY solar tracker, that uses no electronics at all, just "thermal"
logic

On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 04:50 -0700, akaluta wrote:

> Dear Glug Persons;
> Now,I am able to access my parallel port,significant to me and thanks
> again to all.
> .
> CONCEPT IN QUESTION: read the pertinent part of the spa.c
> http://rredc.nrel.gov/solar/codesandalgorithms/spa/ , output,to a
> stepper motor control program driving motors x,y respectively.
>  
> QUESTION PER SE: looking for an analogous sample program or snippet
> which could a read "spa",in this instance every twenty seconds, and
> write to a stepper program. suspect the solution would include time.h. 
> 
> Anyone able to point me in the direction? Best Regards, Anthony K
> 
> The project as it stands is a heliostat, electo-mechanically controlled
> heating my concrete bathroom floor with a conservative pre-loss output
> of 7200 btu's. wishing to add computer control.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> nmglug mailing list
> nmglug at nmglug.org
> https://nmglug.org/mailman/listinfo/nmglug
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.nmglug.org/pipermail/nmglug-nmglug.org/attachments/20090111/d81f76b8/attachment.htm>