** Paul Tansom wrote: >By the way, seeing OpenPilot in your sig. have to taken a look at OpenCPN? I've not computerised my boat yet, but both these look interesting, and I signed up on the OpenPilot list a while back to see how its developing. > > > OpenPilot - http://openpilot.engineering.selfip.org/ > OpenCPN - http://www.opencpn.org/
Yes, I am aware of OpenCPN, and they are aware of the OpenPilot project. The main difference between the two is the flexibility of OpenPilot's architecture. OpenCPN is soley a marine chart plotter, whereas OpenPilot is a collection of widgets which can be made into whatever you want (There is a sample GUI). To demonstrate this flexibility, I gave a talk at the combined Hants/Surrey meeting last month (I will be repeating it at some point), which described using OpenPilot to discharge a pack of batteries. (using in-built functionality). Unfortunately for the project, I have just bought a house which means that I have no time or money to work on it at the moment. However, anything you'd find useful just submit to the mailing list. Cheers, Tim B. -- OpenPilot - Open-source Marine Chart Plotter Lead Developer http://openpilot.engineering.selfip.org -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
