Ship's Computer, how much tech does a sailing yacht need? (Sailing SV Catsaway) - Ep. 10
Posted on August 16, 2017
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.
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
Social Media:
instagram.com/svcatsaway
twitter.com/svcatsaway
facebook.com/svcatsaway
Need cat stuff? www.svcatsaway.com
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description: "I built a Star Trek-themed ship's computer on a Raspberry Pi with an Outernet receiver, GPS tracker, and instrument connectivity."
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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
Social Media:
instagram.com/svcatsaway
twitter.com/svcatsaway
facebook.com/svcatsaway
Need cat stuff? www.svcatsaway.com
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