Category: Electronics

DIY Electronics Security
03/11/2024

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 […]

Electronics Security
22/09/2024

Fundamentals of antennas and VHF for dummies

Don’t risk having your VHF equipment fail you when you need it most! In this episode, we show you how to get the most out of your onboard VHF equipment to ensure maximum safety at sea. 🚤⚓💡 Discover the secrets to a flawless installation and avoid common mistakes that could render your expensive equipment useless. We’ll talk about antennas, splitters, portable transmitters and AIS, showing […]

DIY Electronics Security
09/06/2024

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 […]

DIY Electronics Technology
10/05/2024

How to get free WIFI on your boat

Greatings Sailors, Today we are going to see all the steps necessary to install a WIFI network on our boat, how to give it free Internet when we are at the dock, and how to back up that Internet with another one for when we are sailing. This post can also be applied to have free WIFI in your van, motorhome, or vacation house… In […]

Electronics Technology
03/05/2024

Convert car radio into plotter for boats

Today we see step by step the most economical way to obtain a plotter, with a 7-inch touch screen, for our boat that will have little to envy of the most advanced of the big brands. With a 60 euro car radio, we will build a nautical plotter that has it all. It will even be used to view our boat’s cameras, or as a […]

Electronics
20/02/2024

DIY Remote control for Raymarine ™ Seatalk ™ autopilots

In this post we are going to see all the details of how to build a remote control for the autopilot of our boat. Both the more traditional version, with relays connected directly to the buttons on the display, and the good version that connects to the SeaTalk bus of our Raymarine pilot and works in the same way as the original Raymarine remote control. […]