How to navigate by the stars
Description
My daughter asked me to teach her how to navigate by the stars. My friend the Wayback machine showed me how, courtesy of Quietbay.net.
replay.waybackmachine.org/20071206161519/http://www.quietbay.net/Science/astronomy/nightsky/
The little tutorial through that link will basically teach you how to navigate by the stars in about 5-10 minutes. I took one of the images from the tutorial, traced the important parts in Inkscape, deleted the image, labeled it, and scaled it down to fit on a sticky note.
Since the Inkscape->Gcode extension I used does not fill in paths, the large black swath you see is really just an outline - so it doesn't obscure anything.
replay.waybackmachine.org/20071206161519/http://www.quietbay.net/Science/astronomy/nightsky/
The little tutorial through that link will basically teach you how to navigate by the stars in about 5-10 minutes. I took one of the images from the tutorial, traced the important parts in Inkscape, deleted the image, labeled it, and scaled it down to fit on a sticky note.
Since the Inkscape->Gcode extension I used does not fill in paths, the large black swath you see is really just an outline - so it doesn't obscure anything.
Instructions
1. Print.
2. Navigate by the stars.
Head's up - the Gcode I'm using is from the autohoming Gcode hack on Schmarty's Inkscape extension. ( thingiverse.com/thing:6794 ) If you're not running opto-endstops, you will want to delete the autohoming stuff.
2. Navigate by the stars.
Head's up - the Gcode I'm using is from the autohoming Gcode hack on Schmarty's Inkscape extension. ( thingiverse.com/thing:6794 ) If you're not running opto-endstops, you will want to delete the autohoming stuff.
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License
How to navigate by the stars by MakerBlock is licensed under the Attribution - Creative Commons license.

Got one for the Southern Hemisphere?
Vik, would this work: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...
You have to use the constellation "Crux" in the southern hemisphere https://secure.wikimedia.org/w...
Dang... no... I guess turning it upside down won't help?