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

A navigation data repeater was presented in the italian
Bolina sail magazine issued on March 2008, number 251, page
79. A four row LCD display with decoded NMEA data.
But the author has missed the schematic and the listing for
the programmable microcontroller. The project is useless.
You can check with "Bolina".

Ciao, Dino