Episode 10 - Ship's Computer, how much tech does a sailing yacht need?
We updated the ship’s technology including;
- Raspberry Pi running a Rails app as the Ship’s Computer
- Outernet receiver for weather at sea
- Find me Spot to report ships current location
- vYacht to connect to the Ship’s instruments
- And an EPIRB in case of emergency
We attempted to create our own Seatalk cable in order to save some money. It worked for a little while but was constantly causing instrument errors when the boat moved. Diana and I are trekkies aso it was fun working on a Star Trek themed Ship’s Computer. I’ll enjoy continuing to work on that while we’re sailing at warp 0.00000000000001.
- https://github.com/ShipsComputer/ComputerCore
- https://outernet.is/
- https://findmespot.com/
- https://vyacht.net/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_position-indicating_radiobeacon_station
Contributing projects
LCARS-SDK front end https://github.com/Aricwithana/LCARS-SDK
Earth weather visualization https://github.com/cambecc/earth
Credits:
“Invisible” by Vibe Tracks
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Episode 38 - Cruising: fixing your boat in exotic places
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