On sabbatical from a vacation: my contradictory situation. I’m lacking employment, too broke for enjoyment of Kate’s chemo’s twelve-month duration.
Hey amigos, it’s been a while since I blogged but I’ve got a lot going on and I need a place to talk about it.
This is the second entry in a series about using a Raspberry Pi as the hub of my boat’s data network. Today I describe how I integrated an ultra cheap USB GPS device ($8 on eBay) and an inexpensive AIS receiver ( the dAISy Hat, $65 on Tindie . The AIS receiver tells me the locations of all ships within VHF range (at least five miles), while the GPS gives me my location and the current time to within a fraction of a second.