Sailboat Instruments

When connected to a terminal program through the FTDI breakout at 115200 baud, the compass displays the results formatted as NMEA sentences...

The problem with low-cost sensors is that the accelerometer outputs are very noisy (much less so for the magnetometer). The LSM303D sensor...

For an electronic compass, the accuracy depends more on the quality of the calibration that on the price of the components. Here is the des...

A catamaran’s owner has decided to adapt my design to his boat, which is sailed on a large freshwater lake. As the lake’s currents are virt...

After experimenting with Wi-Fi, I have now added a Bluetooth link between my system and an Android tablet. This has proved to be very relia...

I have been experimenting in building custom displays on a 7” Nexus tablet, from 10 Hz live data received through Wi-Fi from my master micro...

As a proof of concept, I have created a simple app that fetches the last UDP packet received, and displays its contents in a floating messag...