Thread: Chain Counter - a Winter Project - Poll

[wipe_out]

Speaking of Rasberry PI there is a new one called the "Zero" which is tiny.. Maybe an option to save having to build the boards?

http://www.zdnet.com/article/the-ra...5-programmable-computer-with-giant-potential/

 

[DavidJ]

?ugger

I thought I "bailed out" of posting this thread when I realised that the Poll didn't do what I wanted it to.

I wanted it to do a questionnaire rather than a poll.

Anyway, this was what was going to be in the questionnaire:-

Question 1
Do you think that this project is interesting?

Question 2
Do you think that this project will be useful to this community/forums

Question 3
Would you, yourself, build/install such a device?

Question 4
Would you like to join a community of developers to help with the development of this project? (lots of different skills required - not just technical).

Quite happy to take the negative views as well as the positive ones.

...and it's 4 yes's from me

 

[jimmy_the_builder]

?ugger

I thought I "bailed out" of posting this thread when I realised that the Poll didn't do what I wanted it to.

I wanted it to do a questionnaire rather than a poll.

Anyway, this was what was going to be in the questionnaire:-

Question 1
Do you think that this project is interesting?

Question 2
Do you think that this project will be useful to this community/forums

Question 3
Would you, yourself, build/install such a device?

Question 4
Would you like to join a community of developers to help with the development of this project? (lots of different skills required - not just technical).

Quite happy to take the negative views as well as the positive ones.

As the actress said to the bishop - yes, yes, yes, yes.

 

[Hurricane]

Ahh

It now seems to be gathering some interest.
If this is to go ahead, we will need a way of managing it sensibly.
I'll get back with some ideas.

 

[Hurricane]

I have often pondered over the idea of a centralised screen on the boat, then using something like a Raspberry Pi sort of PC and then add loads of sensors to monitor the boats systems. Unfortunately, I revert to type and do sod all about it, but this looks an excellent idea.

I've used Raspberry Pis before for various little projects.
But here's an idea for you - have you seen "Barebones PCs"
Like this one for example http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gigabyte-Br...=UTF8&qid=1448617894&sr=8-5&keywords=gigabyte
I've just finished helping a friend build one for his sailing yacht.
Very low power and not expensive - to that price, all you need is an SSD and £20 of memory.
The big issue always is monitors.
But then you have a proper ships PC - not a low power low performance embedded processor board.
You can then run much more powerful apps - run Windows etc.

Sorry - as you know I'm a big fan of PCs on boats - bit of thread drift there.