Month: March 2025

29/03/2025

NMEA 2000, Raspberry Pi 5 and OpenPlotter 4

In this video, we take a deep dive into the world of NMEA 2000 networking and its variants like SeatalkNG and SimNET. You’ll learn how to connect your boat’s equipment, set up your own NMEA 2000 network, make your own cables, and connect it all to a Raspberry Pi 5. You’ll also discover how to make old and new equipment talk to each other, integrating […]

Electronics Technology

24/03/2025

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 […]

Electronics

14/03/2025

Elfin EW10 NMEA to wifi easily

Convert your NMEA 0183 to WiFi for less than €10! 🚀📡 In this video, we show you how to easily transform data from your AIS equipment and other NMEA 0183 devices into a WiFi signal using the affordable Elfin EW10. 🔧✨This small but powerful industrial converter, like the HF2211, will allow you to view navigation information in real time on your tablet or smartphone with […]

DIY Electric systems Security

08/03/2025

How to prevent the boat from sinking part 2. Evacuate water and save time.

Greetings Sailors, Following the line of our previous post, on how to prevent our boat from sinking, today we are going to focus on saving time and draining water. We had already said that ships inevitably sink, and that most of the time it is the result of carelessness or little maintenance and, above all, of not knowing that she was sinking. So in the […]