DIY Marine Instrumentation and navigation Systems
 

For those of you who like to build things and tinker with low cost
electronics, there are some interesting open source projects going on.

Here's one that I just found that seems particularly interesting
because it offers a lot of options for building sensor based systems
to log, report, transmit and process various kinds of data. Some of
it seems like it might also be applicable to home or automobile
automation projects.

http://www.sailoog.com/en/openplotter

Like all of these projects you have to be interested in tinkering with
both hardware and software. The good news is that the hardware
platforms they are using are low cost and readily available.

DIY Marine Instrumentation and navigation Systems
 

On Sun, 20 Dec 2015 20:55:22 -0500,
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For those of you who like to build things and tinker with low cost
electronics, there are some interesting open source projects going on.

Here's one that I just found that seems particularly interesting
because it offers a lot of options for building sensor based systems
to log, report, transmit and process various kinds of data. Some of
it seems like it might also be applicable to home or automobile
automation projects.

http://www.sailoog.com/en/openplotter

Like all of these projects you have to be interested in tinkering with
both hardware and software. The good news is that the hardware
platforms they are using are low cost and readily available.

Sounds like cool stuff for a guy with a lot of electronics on his
boat.
We have running lights and my wife's android phone. We do fine in the
little pond we splash around in. ;-)
Most of our exploring is done with a piece of PVC pipe and some local
knowledge.
It is hard to beat NBC-2 weather RADAR for watching the storms.