This is My Bachelor Thesis Project (3D printing, Astrophotography)

[@nikodembartnik]

What do you think about the StarTrckr? Should I continue working on the project? Here you can read more: indystry.cc/3-axis-star-tracking-system-for-astrophotography-startrckr/

[@neilomalley9887]

I think it’s a great idea and one that many many people would like to build when it’s a more polished design. It looks like you’ve already created a good basis for it. I can see lots of improvements that could be made. I love your idea of trying to use ML to self align, I’m not aware of any of the commercial scopes doing this but it makes sense as image recognition is well with the capabilities of ML and the images should never be abstract as the night sky is always the same. It would be great to turn this into a community project where other people can contribute on parts of it.

[@girayyillikci3188]

take the brightest star and its ephemeral data and calibrate the machine accordingly. you may use the Sun, Moon, Venus etc. Nery Nice project 👍

[@peterpihlmannpedersen7051]

To improve alignment: You should consider plate-solving your images - this will tell you your pointing position on the sky. You can use this information (from 3+ points) to determine how far misaligned you are from the pole. With a larger collection of these points you can also produce something called a pointing model to help correct for any pointing errors. Likewise, you should characterise your motors behaviour over larger tracking angles, as that might be an underlying issue. Lastly, a guiding algorithm would really help! Source: I'm an astronomer (feel free to reach out!)

[@davesdigitaldomain]

for your age you are an excellent engineer and you will become an amazing engineer in the future. keep learning and creating.

[@nikodembartnik]

Thank you!

[@RoboNoobs.]

I suspected you had a interest for space when you uploaded your Rover video and now i confirm. You are truly a great and inovative Engineer👍👍👍

[@jeffstewart7698]

Congratulations! You may not realize it now, but your ability to imagine, create, test, revise and communicate these designs is rare and priceless. Set you sights high and go after whatever you can imagine. 🏆

[@nikodembartnik]

Thank you! Very motivating comment :)

[@scottsolar5884]

Niko! You win the internet today! Bravo! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@DennisMurphey]

You should thank your parents for raising you so well. Great result Niko. Best wishes ahead. Dennis

[@mehedyamin]

Excellent job! Wishing you all the best to your journey to industry or academia.

[@djpenton779]

Excellent video! Congratulations on your success with the project. I will read your thesis. I am in the process of assembling your dremel cnc from a few years ago. I purchased the parts in April of 2023, but they have been sitting unused until March, 2024. I have watched many of your videos. It is great to see you grow from an enthusiastic youth to a mature young man. Keep it up, Nikodem!

[@VeerDaVlog]

Good to see you growing up together. ❤ Congratulations on the completion of your thesis, and I am still procrastinating to start writing my thesis.

[@MrAxelfrom]

Congratulations Nikodem, I always admire your work and now you have an officiell recognition. Congratulations again.

Congratulations on your project and achievements. You have developed an astonishing set of skills and inspired us, through your work here on KZbin, to "make" better. For all you have done for us so far, thank you so very much.

[@nikodembartnik]

Thanks!

[@martenthornberg275]

Congratulations! 🥳 Cool project

[@miriamneves]

Amazing Project! Huge congratulations!

[@pykid1915]

PEOPLE LIKE U REALLY MOTIVATES ME

[@kkoutras21]

Well done my friend. Congratulations. Your content is amazing and you will become an amazing engineer. Keep up the hard work and I am sure that your future will be full of high inspiration innovations. Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

[@stevesnep]

Congratulations! Nice work. As always.

[@robwgeorge]

Congratulations! Another amazing project.

[@edgar9651]

Congratulations. I am not surprised you did it and you did it that well.

[@laupetre]

Congratulations on your awesome project! Will definitely star the github repo and build it for myself as I also want to start my astrophotography journey.

[@mattchesebrough4050]

Great video and walk through of your work. Great job!

[@joetkeshub]

Hi Nikodem! You'll get your bachelor thanks to your skills and knowledge! Great project as well. Poland is rich of its brilliant youth, you are one of them arguably. But my greatest pleasure is to hear that LaTex is STILL RELEVANT and the best editor for sciences! It was already the case in early 80's, it's gorgeously still relevant 40 years later! LaTex deserves respect and use. Congrats my friend. I'm glad that you rapidly reach above 100k subscribers. My uncle and I were among the few first who understood that your channel would be a great one. Have a great year my friend. From Strasbourg, France.

[@kepler4190]

for serious scientific work latex is often the only permitted way to write at universities here

[@jazekerxx7535]

i always like diy astro(photography) projects, so yes please continue this and other projects! (yeah i do like your normal projects too ;) ) something i noticed, i saw a lot of whobble in the star trails and with tracking on wobble around the star. so probably your mount is just not ridgid enough. maybe instead of connection the 3 axis on one another (which makes a really long and bouncy arm), you could try to use 2 U shaped forks for the first and second axis. i think that will be a lot stiffer and thus improves the image quality. also put the camera on the ground instead of on a table. and lastly you could place a wind shield so the wind will not affect the camera.

[@mrcarlpaton]

Thanks for sharing this and congratulations on your grades!

[@stumcconnel]

Fantastic project, well done and congratulations on such a good grade in your degree!

[@colinpamplin9976]

Well done. A very interesting video. Congratulations on your Degree.

[@zihotki]

Congrats, welcome to the gang!

[@Donkey1793]

Congratulations 🎉 Welcome in the family! (Even though you've always been part of it)

[@nikodembartnik]

Thank you!

[@sithilliyanage3676]

Great project, I think you will definitely be able to adapt existing projects/code to add GoTo functionality. From the images it tracks pretty well.

[@sampleexperiments5768]

Super jestem pełna podziwu w jakim tempie realizujesz swoje pomysły i ambitnie dążysz do osiągnięcia zamierzonego celu, dalszych wspaniałych osiągnięć, wszystkie filmy widziałam są bardzo dobre❤❤❤

[@iot_enthusiast]

Congratulations on your upcoming graduation!

[@ValRC1]

Wow, this is seriously amazing! Great work and thank you for this video

[@joetkeshub]

Can't wait the next project about calibration.

[@larsbressers1402]

Great work!

[@BlackMapleMFG]

I’m a manufacturing engineer and loved seeing how you made the product. I am not so interested in tracking stats but I was still able to enjoy the video. I would like to know why your thoughts on getting your degree are negative if you achieved the highest grade possible? Did you think this project didn’t deserve it? Cheers - Ryan

[@glubschipubschi]

great work i really are inspired by your work. thank you for uploading. i was thinking to use a design like that to track the sun during daytime and instead of a camera a parabolic lense to produce heat ... energy... etc. thank you so much 👍

[@va-ro]

thanks and all the best ...

[@deathshaker0026]

You have grown so much. It's funny how time passes by so fast..... like the last six years.

[@jeffschroeder4805]

Congratulations upon receiving your "engineer" title, you certainly deserve it!

[@Thurloat]

Good luck with your masters thesis!

[@nikodembartnik]

Thank you!

[@0lympy]

interesting project! But why isn't single motor axis enough? You just need the bend mechanism to set its rotation axis to be parallel with the Earth's one

[@nikodembartnik]

Sure, it is enough as mentioned in the case of equatorial mounts (you need the second axis to be able to rotate the camera and point it wherever you need. With my system calibration is easier as can be completely automated (even on a table that is not leveled) but that's not ready yet. It's also easier to not only compensate for rotation of the earth but track the moon, planets and even satellites :) But that's all upgrades planned for the future.

[@0lympy]

@@nikodembartnikI agree, other bodies tracking is a good idea!

[@memoirsofamadscientist04294]

Excellent documentation work in addition to your impressive engineering abilities. Being able to effectively communicate your problem solutions to others is a valuable skill. I look forward to reading more of your work!

[@jadelpino10]

Congrats mate!!

[@vigneshs6232]

Really a great project...I don't know why KZbin is not recommending your video...I subscribed your channel and also pressed the Bell button....I found this only after seeing your post from LinkedIn....Anyhow, Great porject....Keep doing....

[@unknowngenius4u]

Love you from India 😊

[@patrykbuczynski7533]

Simply amazing!

[@gibstera5580]

Congratulations!

[@MagnusWillyAndersen]

Hi Nikodem! (I haven't even watched the whole video yet, but I just had to leave a comment!❤) Your knowledge alone is amazing🔥 - but also your ability to convey this knowledge in a digestable and understandable manner, is simply phenomenal! For someone where English is their 2nd language as well, you're doing absolutely amazing🔥👏🏻 I have been watching a few of your Arduino/robot videos, which has taught me a lot! - Keep up the good work! You're on a path to absolute greatness!🏆🎉 OH! and by the way.. Did I hear Minecraft music in the video?😆

[@W4TRI_Ronny]

You know there are 10s or thousands of Amateur Radio operators that would love to see an affordable Az/El antenna rotor. To overkill such a design NEMA 23 motors are a must. Contact me direct if you want to pursue such a project. The SW side and protocol is already done BTW. This could easily be 100s of times bigger than your CNC.

[@nikodembartnik]

That's interesting concept and as I am looking into a new open-source project as a next Indystry product I might consider it. But firstly I need to finish building my new workshop :)

[@gacu321]

Świetna robota!

[@StubbyPhillips]

12:08 Some projection mapping going on in the distance? Seems like a lot of overshoot for that, but it doesn't quite look like lasers.

[@VoyagerDevSharma]

Very very very good nikodem bhaiya

[@sawomirmichalski8370]

Super sprawa, chętnie zbudowałbym sobie takie urządzenie. Przewidujesz sprzedaż gotowych PCB?

[@glauciogv5225]

Great Nikodem ! 👏👏

[@EnjoyPlantPower]

Cool project! And congrats on completing your studies! Though tell me, what’s a 5 mean as a grade? I’m used to letters instead 🦖 😂

[@MisterMakerNL]

Congrats!

[@MattKasdorf]

Did you say you used L.A.T.C.H. or LaTeX to write your essay? I know L.A.T.C.H. as the 5 ways to organize data, but is it a software application as well?

[@VeerDaVlog]

He used Overleaf online tool which is used as a LaTeX editor

[@nikodembartnik]

it was LaTeX

[@plllot9713]

czy mi sie wydaje, czy popracowales nad 'thee'? ;)

[@NotDrDre]

Good stuff!

[@pixelapse9613]

How old are you bro?

[@rklauco]

If you start some go-fund-me, I'll chip in for a trip to Sahara desert for star gazing :) Amazing project, your engineering degree is well deserved. Congratulation!

[@nikodembartnik]

That would be a dream trip! Maybe at some point once the system is fully ready I will build 2 or 3 StarTrckrs and go to the Sahara desert :)

[@rklauco]

@@nikodembartnikGreat idea! The trip is, btw, not even that much expensive. There are multiple travel agencies (even in Poland) doing it regularly. I wish you all the best. Btw, the idea with the model training for calibration - so far one of the best uses of neural networks (so-called AI) I've heard of!

[@otonyomangete1362]

👍🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@julianhering6098]

💪💪💪💪

[@souravshome8104]

Damn

[@joetkeshub]

You are Copernic's offspring for sure😉

[@balveersingh3051]

it's expensive for a student to learn about robotics

[@TomsBackyardWorkshop]

My engineering project wasn't nearly as complex as yours. I built a solar panel that tracks the sun in 2 axis. I used a microcontroller to keep track of the suns intensity and move the solar panel towards the most intense sunlight.

[@nikodembartnik]

Thank you! Sounds like a really cool project as well :)

[@kLJiga]

The criteria at the university are low. This is a hyperintellectualization of a simple problem. Stars are not dots - is that the left until the endа? If so, the problem is not solved. It's easy to look "fancy" today - caddies, 3D printer,.. ready-made modules,.. slopes are measured with a phone. My impression is that this is not a good solution.

[@RoboNoobs.]

@nikodembartnik i saw that you have an hantek oscilloscope its good but for like an inovative engineer like you i would recomend getting Rigol DSO924S because it is 4 Channel, have 250Mhz bandwidth and has 1.25Ga/s its the best for u

[@nikodembartnik]

The one I have is still very capable and so far I never faced a problem where this oscilloscope would limit me. I know there are better models out there but they are also very expensive. Maybe some day :)

[@RoboNoobs.]

@@nikodembartnikyou are a great Engineer but i have a complain || You Never made any flying stuff :( Pls make one ||

[@nikodembartnik]

Haha, I did! Long time ago I made a drone with Arduino called Ludwik Drone, there is a short video on KZbin and detailed instructable about it. I also made an RC plane two years ago: kzbin.info/www/bejne/p4S6n2Z6dpx2gLs

[@RoboNoobs.]

o@@nikodembartnik nice can you make a survailence UAV with Thermal vision and night vision??