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ZenLoch, The boat loch of the 3rd millennium

Posted on1 th 201428 th 20218 comments

After the sextant of the future (¹), presented at the Paris Boat Show last December, here is the loch of the future revisited by a "Professor Calculus", an electronics engineer and genius inventor from Nantes.

The oldest among us will certainly remember this venerable and inexpensive instrument of the old sailing navy : The "boat loch". Quote (²):

The "boat" is a wooden plank, weighted to float vertically and connected to the log line by a crow's foot. On the line we tie knots, spaced in principle 7m72 (or 1/240th of a nautical mile). We put the "boat" in the water and let the line go. we then count, from the first node, how many knots pass through the hand in 15 seconds, which gives the speed in knots.

AIS-Wi-Fi transponder less then 590 euros

Posted on16 February 20145 th 2024One comment

La société Taiwanaise Alltek Marine Electronics, aussi connue sous l’acronyme AMEC, s’est spécialisée depuis 2006 dans la conception et la fabrication d’appareils AIS. In his presentation, AMEC annonce avoir été fondée avec the aim de fournir le meilleur de l’électronique marine for navigation, communication and la sécurité. Dans la poursuite de this goal, AMEC s’est engagé to provide AIS solutions to meet customer expectations for the qualité, the performances, les valeurs et les services. Ses solutions s’adressent to navires commerciaux, navires de pêche and bateaux de plaisance. Read more …

Iridium GO! promises to connect you – nearly – anywhere

Posted on11 February 20142 October 20247 comments

Global satellite company aims at the consumer market with Iridium GO!™ : pack it for camping or world travel.

In all public places where you can wirelessly connect to the Internet today, une connexion Wi-Fi n’est pas encore omniprésente. Et si vous êtes un plaisancier, randonneur, pilote, en camping-car ou quelqu’un qui passe beaucoup de temps dans la nature, les chances de vous connecter au cyber-espace dans certains endroits éloignés est presque impossible. Il ne s’agit pas seulement des données. Try making a cellular phone call in such places !

3G/4G tethering [Update]

Posted on2 July 201320 July 20207 comments

In coastal navigation, sometimes it's easier to connect to the 3G cellular network than to get a WiFi connection with a land-based hotspot. Cellular transmission antennas are becoming more and more numerous on the coast and on the islands. But as you follow my recommendations scrupulously (¹), I have no doubt about it, you have a WiFi+3G iPad without having taken out a subscription, i.e. without a SIM card, and you are quite right. So how do you do it ? Read more …

The aiShell waterproof case for iPad Mini

Posted on27 May 201320 July 20202 comments

This time, it came up ! The new waterproof case for iPad Mini by Andres Industries, to whom we owe the famous iPad Case, is finally available.

Smaller, lighter, more discreet, but just as robust, it is ideal for protecting your iPad Mini on boat, on beach, under the rain or in the desert (¹). With this funny name “ aiShell " , literally “Coquillage Andres Industries”, the manufacturer offers a case with all the tips of the big brother for iPad : a waterproof power connector, windows for cameras, adaptation to existing REM mounts. It even added two retractable legs to facilitate its use on a flat surface. A completely Germanic design. Read more …

Mirror iPad screen… in the cabin. [Update]

Posted on2 th 201324 August 20202 comments

Hey yes, this is the world upside down ! At the beginning of iPad use in a boat, the tablet was used to capture the screen of a PC fixed to a chart table for display applications such as MaxSea in the cockpit. The solution has been - and still is - widely used. But since I've been working with a few accomplices to demonstrate that the iPad is capable of providing a perfectly autonomous navigation solution (¹), These tablets are increasingly installed at a fixed position in the cockpit.

Once attached and connected to a waterproof power supply, on a wheel column or close to the tiller, disassembling the iPad may seem tedious for a few minutes to spend inside the cabin. The solution would it not mirror its screen to display on a single PC screen via WiFi, in order to monitor the progress of the boat on the electronic chart while we are active in the galley ?

[Update September 24/08/2020]

Combine instruments NMEA 2000 and NMEA 0183

Posted on2 February 201318 January 2022

In a previous entry I talked about NGW-1 by Actisense company (¹), an NMEA 0183 gateway converter to NMEA 2000 bidirectional.
Since then, This footbridge has been declined in several versions. Each of them allows you to connect to the NMEA network 2000 A range of special instruments, and so combine their data with other NMEA 2000 instruments already present on the network. This can be particularly interesting, in an installation mixing both protocols, to facilitate data transfers in iNavX. Read more …

Protections for iPad (3)

Posted on2 December 201211 th 2024One comment

In a post from 19 th 2011 I mentioned the announcement of an iPad waterproof case by the young company LifeProof. It took a year and a half to see the outcome of this case. We must understand that the rapid succession of iPad models, mainly the radical change in form between iPads 1 and 2, did not encourage this company to rush to launch the design of its first protection. Read more …

BeiDou-2 Chinese GPS

Posted on29 October 20125 th 2024

China launched its 16th satellite of its satellite positioning system BeiDou-2. Like all other Chinese satellites, it was put into orbit by their own rocket Long March 3.

It is the sixth satellite launched this year to complete the constellation of satellites that will make up the BeiDou-2 navigation network. Started in 2007, this network is the successor to the BeiDou-1 project launched in October 2000 and gradually made up of 4 Experimental satellites. Read more …

iPhone 5 and GPS

Posted on11 October 20125 th 2024

Source : iFixit

With iPad 3, Apple has discontinued Broadcom's BCM475x series A-GPS chipsets that powered iPads 1 and 2 and iPhones 4. From iPhone 4S and iPad 3, says New iPad (¹), it is now Qualcomm company which provides Apple devices a modem integrating all communication features, series Gobi™ Modems (²). Read more …