On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 21:33:29 +0200, Daniele Fua
wrote:

Is there an easy way to build a display that will show some chosen NMEA
data?
I have seen on the market programmable units that sell for several
hundred $ and I know that a computer is easily interfaced but what I
need is just a simple, cheap and weatherproof repeater at the helm to
display only few of the zillion data available at the underdeck main
navigation station. For example decoding just part of BWC and VTG and
displaying, say, four lines would be enough (COG, heading, bearing to
waypoint, and distance to waypoint).

Daniel

There is an NMEA-0183 FAQ on my website listed below that details the
formats of common NMEA-0183 sentences.

There is a simple program to display some NMEA data somewhere on my
site, called "nmealogr.zip" (or maybe ".exe") This was written in
Borland C for DOS, but the source code should be a useful guide for
other environments.


--
Peter Bennett, VE7CEI
peterbb4 (at) interchange.ubc.ca
GPS and NMEA info: http://vancouver-webpages.com/peter
Vancouver Power Squadron: http://vancouver.powersquadron.ca

Peter Bennett wrote in
news.com:

Borland C for DOS

Wow! That was a flashback towards Woodstock!

73 DE W4CSC

NNNN

Thank you to all but my question was more on how to make or buy a cheap
and not necessarily versatile piece of hardware.
If I find it, a second hand B&G could be the answer but I was thinking
more of a DIY (or Do-It-Myself would be more appropriate...) box with
few smart chips and a non graphic LCD display. Any of you guys ever
bumped on something similar?

Peter, I have known your site for years and I still appreciate it
whenever I need information on NMEA.

Daniel

On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 03:50:53 +0000, Larry wrote:

Peter Bennett wrote in
rnews.com:

Borland C for DOS

Wow! That was a flashback towards Woodstock!

73 DE W4CSC

NNNN

At work, I still have a PC with DOS6 (I think), and still use Borland
C to write software for it. I use it to communicate with a data
acquisition system that I design new modules for. I've never gotten
into Windoze programming.


--
Peter Bennett, VE7CEI
peterbb4 (at) interchange.ubc.ca
GPS and NMEA info: http://vancouver-webpages.com/peter
Vancouver Power Squadron: http://vancouver.powersquadron.ca