A fun little project this last weekend! Mainly a good excuse to practice some CAD work.

It's a 7" touchscreen with a raspberry pi 4 running open plotter and openCPN. It's a prototype for the head unit for my navigation station on my boat.

The final one will likely be a 10" touchscreen. Not waterproof, but water resistant. And then likely a waterproof android tablet for the cockpit.

I will likely use the prototype in the vbearth for keeping an eye on things.

#diy #3dprint #opencpn #openplotter #openmarine

Sadly, it does not appear anyone associated with #OpenCPN on Mastodon is connected to my host. Sad, because this is a fabulous FLOSSy #ChartPlotter #Navigator and #Quadrature_du_Net is always supportive of opensource.

Regardless, I want to give a shout-out to Leamas, who is doing an outstanding job of bug-wrangling at least on the flathub org.opencpn.OpenCPN repo.

https://github.com/leamas

OpenCPN question. How do I get boat navigation vector maps for Päijänne-Keitele?

Heard one could download from Traficom the raw data and then somehow convert to the OpenCPN format? Anyone here with experience? Or even ready-made stuff?

#opencpn #päijänne #keitele #vectormaps #navigation #boat #boating

#OpenCPN (Chart Plotter #Navigation) https://opencpn.org/index.html

Very cool stuff! I was hoping that something like this was out there, but, I kept hearing references to Navionics and Garmin (ugh!), and never to something open. I am delighted to discover that I won't be limited to proprietary, locked down, software.

There's even a #NixPkg for it https://search.nixos.org/packages?show=opencpn&type=packages&query=opencpn