Comments on: Tiller autopilot for small sailboats

By: fartface

fartface — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:18:31 +0000

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.

By: Orv

Orv — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:53:20 +0000

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? ;)

By: m k b

m k b — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:07:37 +0000

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/

By: userjjb

userjjb — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 20:35:52 +0000

I reccomend that everyone check out his autonomous glider, some seriously awesome stuff there

By: strider_mt2k

strider_mt2k — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 15:59:35 +0000

Nice project!

Seriously. That is clever and useful.

Keep up the nautical hacks folks, It's interesting stuff!

By: M K B

M K B — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 10:28:21 +0000

Don’t want to be a grinch, but I did this about a year ago and submitted it to the site. Why did it never appear?

By: RT (Panzer Time!)

RT (Panzer Time!) — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 08:21:04 +0000

As one who enjoys sailing, I have to say that this is one project that rocks. High five.