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Silkie
 Post subject: Home-made chart plotter
PostPosted: Tue Jan 03, 2012 9:53 pm 
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Thought that building a few of these might be a useful sideline for Nick during periods when it's a bit quiet on LOTRO.



He says it "needs only 2w of energy" and I see a label marked 5v so I presume the board draws 400ma which sounds pretty impressive although you have (one has :) ) still to add a display device and GPS thingy.

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Already goat wann ae they plotters on mah fone :mrgreen:

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I'm waiting to get my hands on a Raspberry Pi....

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Silkie wrote:
He says it "needs only 2w of energy" and I see a label marked 5v so I presume the board draws 400ma which sounds pretty impressive although you have (one has :) ) still to add a display device and GPS thingy.


There might be some scope with the Raspberry Pi as well. It's a similar sort of thing: credit card sizes, ARM processor ... and only $35 for the posh version, which has 256MB RAM and an ethernet port. It runs Ubuntu Linux, so all that's needed is a port of OpenCPN and the necessary libraries.

www.raspberrypi.org

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