Category: Technology

Life on board Technology
18/10/2024

Starlink: cost, operation, tricks and installation

Discover how you can have high-speed satellite internet anywhere on the planet for just 29 euros a month! 🌍🚤In this episode of The Low Cost Sailor, we show you how Starlink has revolutionized connectivity at sea, in motorhomes or even in places as remote as in the middle of the mountains. Learn all about the installation, the cost and how we have tested this service […]

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 […]

Life on board Technology
19/01/2024

Recover sunken treasures

The bottom of the sea is full of treasures, and most of them have fallen to ourselves. In today’s episode we are going to see different techniques with which anyone can recover lost objects from the seabed, with little investment and various techniques that range from magnetic fishing, to the use of endoscopic cameras or diving equipment that allow us to breathe freely. into water […]

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 […]