esp32-solar

What's it do?

This project was another bordom-fighting exercise. It shows the positions of the planets at a particular date and time.

It also lets you "play" the animation through at about ~30 FPS (which ticks at a rate of 1 day per frame).

The maths used in this project is from Paul Schlyter, and I encourage you to read it as he explains it very well.

The Board

Using Makerfabs' ESP32 Touch with Camera (capacitive)

Which has:

1. 3.5inch TFT ILI9488
2. SD card Reader
3. I2C Touch Screen (NS2009 or FT6236)
4. OV2640 Camera

Prerequisites

Install Bodmer's TFT_eSPI library and:

• In User_Setup_Select.h
  • Comment out ALL setups except #include <User_Setup.h>
• In User_Setup.h
  • Change the contents to the one in this repo.
• In TFT_eSPI.cpp
  • Head to the bottom and move #include <Extensions/Button.cpp> out of the #if TOUCH_CS conditional

Install NTPClient

Credits

Lots of code and main inspiration from dr-mod's repo! https://github.com/dr-mod/pico-solar-system

Sprites generated using image2cpp

Author

Jack Burgess

License

GNU GPLv3