[Dennis] sent in the glider that [Art] built, but I had to feature his dinghy autopilot. It runs on solar power, takes GPS data via serial and maintains the heading using a servo motor to drive the line. It’s an excellent solution for the hardware hacking boater.
Nice project!
Seriously. That is clever and useful.
Keep up the nautical hacks folks, It’s interesting stuff!
Posted at 8:59 am on Apr 20th, 2008 by strider_mt2k
I reccomend that everyone check out his autonomous glider, some seriously awesome stuff there
Posted at 1:35 pm on Apr 20th, 2008 by userjjb
Search for “navcom” on youtube and you can see mine :) the URL with the source code is in the url thingie above. My system is microcontroller based and has been put on two boats and a plane.
if you can’t see the url: http://67.15.245.21/portfolio/navcom_ai/
The glider is pretty cool. Wonder if anyone has tried to write a thermaling algorithm? Birds with brains the size of a walnut do it with great success; how hard could it be? ;)
Posted at 3:53 pm on Apr 21st, 2008 by Orv
Why not do a typical autohelm? you can get the sensors to sense rotational drift for dirt most anywhere and that would be more sensitive to the really slow update that GPS has.
Now autopilot that does Waypoint x,y,Z and will traverse the three enroute to waypoint Z that’s cool.
Posted at 9:18 am on Apr 22nd, 2008 by fartface
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As one who enjoys sailing, I have to say that this is one project that rocks. High five.
Posted at 1:21 am on Apr 20th, 2008 by RT (Panzer Time!)