1. ECE 477 Team 18 - Timothy Brown
Humble Hubble
ECE 477 Team 18 - Timothy Brown
Abstract
The proposed project is a self-aiming telescope. This telescope will obtain its global position and the local time via GPS. It will then automatically orient itself to point at a user selected target (star) using a variety of onboard sensors.

2. Block Diagram

3. Design Constraints 3.3V power supply I2C Communication Bus
2 PWM Channels
~32 kB Program Memory
~32 IO pins
No minimum speed requirement
Internal oscillator

4. Comparison PIC24FJ64GB106 - Microchip S912XDG128F2MAL - Freescale
Program Memory – 64kB
3 I2C Interfaces
52 I/O pins
V operating voltage
9 PWM peripherals
FREE SAMPLES!
Program Memory – 128kB
I2C Capable
91 I/O pins
V operating voltage
8 PWM channels
FREE SAMPLES!