Category: Electronics

14/11/2021

The WiFi gas alarm that saved my boat

In this post, we are going to see, which for me is the best Gas alarm that you can have on your boat. Mainly, because, during confinement, except mine from ending up on fire. But I also discovered that it is not only capable of detecting a butane leak, but it can also detect the emanations of the batteries when they are overcharging and are […]

17/09/2021

New life for the electronics of our boat

Greetings sailors,Today we are going to reuse and modernize all the electronics of our boat thanks to our Rapsberry with Openplotter, interconnecting NMEA 0183 and Seatalk devices to be able to access their data from any device (Tablet, Mobile, Computer, Navionics, OpenCPN) and anywhere. And all thanks to connecting it with our Raspberry Pi with OpenPlotter. A world of possibilities to rejuvenate the electronics of […]

03/09/2021

The cheapest AIS emitter on the market, for your boat

Greetings sailors,Today we are going to test the cheapest AIS transponder that I could find and which of course is Chinese. In fact, total Chinese. Officially they call it a locator for fishing nets, specifically “SOCOTRAN Net Locator“, but we will see that it is actually a perfectly functional AIS transponder, to which we will be able to incorporate the identification information of our boat […]

20/05/2021

Low cost chart plotter with Raspberry Pi and Open Plotter

Greetings sailors, Today we are going to see how to install the famous Raspberry Pi with Open Plotter on our boat. Basically we are going to put a brain to our boat. With the Raspberry Pi we will be able to do a multitude of things that could fill many posts, but today we are going to focus on doing two things with it: We […]

25/03/2021

Motorized outdoor WIFI camera. For surveillance and navigation.

Greetings sailors, today we are going to install an IP motorized camera, spending less than 85$. We are going to place it on the outside of our boat, but obviously, this tutorial is suitable to learn how to place it anywhere, such as your home for example. Purpose As for profits (if we put on a boat): Monitor the boat from home, when the boat […]

25/02/2021

DIY anti-intruder alarm with video surveillance and mobile alert

Greetings sailors, Today we are going to learn how to make a surveillance system for the interior of our boat so that it warns us if someone slips into it and to be able to monitor the interior of it. And all this spending about 18$ on materials. In reality, the solution that we are going to carry out is exactly the same to protect […]