Category: Technology

Comfort on board Life on board Technology
01/09/2023

Inventions against heat

Another Heat Wave! Facing the HEAT on board our BOATS, VANS or MOTORHOMES is complicated, and can make summer nights become very long. In this week’s episode we will see some of the most ingenious INVENTIONS that exist to beat the heat on board and we will try to understand a little better how they work. Fans, evaporative coolers, air conditioners and even a portable […]

Electronics Technology
04/03/2023

Node-RED Automation

Today we will see how to AVOID your OUTBOARD, or the auxiliary, or any VALUABLE accessory of our boat from being STOLEN. Because we are going to see how, in a very simple way, we can make our boat know that things and people are on board and that it notify us when something is missing or that it is ahead and do things like […]

Electronics Technology
03/12/2022

Alternatives to the Raspberry

In today’s post we are going to see how to give an old computer a new life. This will allow us, for example, to turn it into a real cheap alternative to the Raspberry Pi, but it will also be a good complement to be able to use it as a navigation plotter on the boat, or as Radar for boats and airplanes, in the […]

Sailing Technology Toys
11/09/2022

Waterproof flying drone

In this post we are going FISHING for BONITO in the Bay of Biscay, although the main thing we are going to have to fish for is our new FLYING DRONE when it CRASHES into the WATER in a shot… Luckily it is a Chinese flying drone and aquatic that nothing happens because it crashes in the water and that can land and take off […]

Electronics Technology
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 […]

Electronics Sailing Security Technology
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 […]