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Freeboard Navigation Instruments and Chartplotter

Freeboard is a new way to provide marine instruments and navigation tools over WIFI with low cost open hardware (Arduino and Raspberry Pi).

Goals

  • minimal cost
  • maximum interoperability
  • support compass, wind, log, autopilot, charts, and other common uses.
  • use low cost commodity hardware for sensors and processors
  • support modern devices (PC, tablets, cellphones)
  • support for many simultaneous users
  • total system cost (less clients) <USD500
  • use common KAP/BSB or ENC map formats (US NOAA Raster charts work)
  • low power usage (currently 0.4A at 12v)

Thats achieved in a totally unique way, by providing the instruments and chartplotter via a web page over a local wifi link on your boat, so that any device with a web browser can access them.

This is the main server for the Freeboard server project.

See http://www.42.co.nz/freeboard for more.