Sidereal clock, baby!

…well, I’d need an oscilloscope to confirm, of course.

But I converted the Bresenham/Black algorithm to Arduino code, mixed in code from a Timer Interrupts tutorial from the web (I should link to that here), and loaded it up.

Worked the first time. Wow. I set up pin13 to oscillate, and the Arduino’s power LED is definitely steady on, where pin 13 is definitely blinking (saw it using POV). I set the Bresenham constants to do a 1Hz blink, and the LED started blinking slow enough to see.

Bring on the stepper motors!

oooh.. I wonder if I have a convenient 16-bit counter somewhere. hmm… must think on that.

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