Marine Industry
Two things immediately struck me as I started to investigate marine electronics: the relative antiquity of the equipment and the extreme price of the equipment. That is obviously a bad combination for...
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Let the Updates Begin
The first thing I needed to update on Satisfaction was the navigation system. Satisfaction has a Datamarine “Dart EC 2800″ chart plotter onboard, but only at the lower helm. I don’t know how old that...
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Mobile Device Support
With a new navigation setup and a couple of new sensors providing interesting information regarding the boat, I thought I was all set. However, I quickly discovered that I didn’t want to have to fire...
View ArticleNMEA Protocols for Data Exchange
There are two popular formats for marine sensors to provide data to other devices: NMEA 0183 and NMEA 2000. Both these formats are maintained by NMEA. The NMEA 2000 format is far newer then the NMEA...
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Heading to Southern California
Later today I head down to southern California to work on the electric boat project I’ve been involved with. The boat is a kayak being developed by Volt Boats. I’ve been working to add a Bluetooth®...
View ArticleMaking an Autopilot
Last week I wrote how I was heading to southern California to test some software I wrote for iPhones/iPads which controls an electric boat. Unfortunately on that trip we had to focus on a bit lower...
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