Controlling Telescope Hardware with Rust
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Controls an 8‑inch telescope via a serial protocol and a vendor C API, with all code on GitHub (khyperia/scopie). Uses serial protocol: 9600 8N1, hex RA/Dec commands and hash ACKs to slew motors and query position; links to the camera C library by hand‑writing bindings and checks. Camera returns 12‑bit data in 16‑bit words, so Rust computes mean/stddev, uploads 16‑bit grayscale textures to GPU for real‑time remapping, and uses a mount thread sending mpsc lambdas and an enum for camera controls to avoid UI blocking. Images (Elephant’s Trunk, Eagle Nebula) are produced.
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