Pi Cam Astro

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PPROJECT IS EARLY WORK IN PROGRESS
"Pi Cam Astro" is the first try for a Astro camera that is Raspberry Pi driven and modular designed.
planned features in keywords.
modularity :
sub modules shall be replaceable without the needs to replace and buy the complete component.

support of different sensors:
IMX 291 as Pi Cam V2 and Pi Cam V2 NoIR
IMX 290
IMX 178

sensor cooling
passiv with copper cooler
active with fan only
active with peltier element and fan

Rapberry PI Controller
imaging control lights, darks, flats, biaslights, biasdarks
auto register, auto stacking
camera assist north/south adjust
auto guiding to st4 / auto guiding via indi/ascom

Slicing FreeCAD Model directly.
Another part of this design is to use CURA with FreeCAD import plugin. the resulting G-Code is huge but the print results are absolut amazing.
FreeCAD plugin
To create Caps, i added a python plugin that i made to create easily cups and plugs for different diameter.