You're right!! I'd forgotten. My 2006 Toshiba *does* have a PCMCIA slot, and in fact I bought a card for it with a parallel port (my ST-7E camera was parallel). My 2010 Asus doesn't have any slots,

Yup. 10Micron mounts use such Linux based control system. A big advantage of Linux over other RTOS's is a large developer community and a big knowledge base. I have a feeling that the tables have

Hi Ray, Thanks for expanding more on the benefits of Ethernet in areas I had not considered, you certainly make a compelling case! It would be nice if in the future more device manufacturers also

The only reason the pricing is so low on tablets is that they can sell millions. That will never happen in the mount market. There's better choices than LINUX for real-time performance. LINUX can be

Speaking as a software developer and microcontroller programmer, I think the future for embedded control systems (like GOTO mounts) is going to migrate towards Android on top of Linux. A powerful,

Thank you Suresh, I had forgotten about PREMPRO. This isn't something I'm going to do anytime soon, but it came up in a conversation and I thought I'd ask. Stuart

After a long search I did find (at Frys, finally) a laptop with an Express Card slot. (I needed firewire for a Flea3 planetary camera. Try finding firewire/1394b any more). This was over a year ago

Well, I set up my mount on the patio about 10 feet away from where I sit. So if I'm really worried I just step outside and look at it before I do anything. The motivation for wireless is just to be

We have built-in safe limits in the 1600 that you can set to prevent collision of scope against the mount. Rolando

On the “mechanical” topic of those serial ports on the CPx, I wonder if the next version could either have right angled DB connectors, or (the less reliable) RJ11 jacks side-mounted. I don’t

Pete, You touched on another interesting point. At the risk of going OT here, while you are controlling your mount “remotely from your house”, as you say, HOW do you guarantee that your

I think people get overly enamored of "modular" solutions. Often these things just introduce complexity that no one wants to support use cases that only a few people care about. We are probably better

Hi Zak, You wrote: would I think it would be more useful than serial. Here's some reasons why: * Even at "only" 100 mbit speeds (1 Gbit is common and 10Gb emerging) Ethernet can theoretically

While chewing on the idea about an ethernet controlled mount, I reached a very similar conclusion to Christopher, namely a modular GTOCP with a range of extensions. Although I like the idea of

Rolando thanks for looking and the nice comment. My Mach 1 makes imaging much easier and far more enjoyable. Tom

Ethernet and USB have considerably-higher program code and component overhead than RS-232 and most all microcontrollers already have an RS-232 port cast in their silicon that literally comes for

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Hi Howard, Many thanks, most appreciated. Kind regards Simon

These cable are console cable used to connect to network equipment on their serial port. The RJ45 in this case is NOT an Ethernet connection but a serial connection. The pinout of the RJ45 side can be

http://www.amazon.com/HDE-9-Pin-Serial-Ethernet-Adapter/sim/B004F72A9I/2 Disclaimer: I have not used any of these. Tom