Boat Computer

The boat computer is built around an M30262F8 microcontroller, four megabytes of flash memory, two RS232 interfaces, and a 160x128 monochrome LCD. It has two main features. First, it displays the boat's current position and direction on an electronic chart. Second, it logs information from a boat's GPS receiver and depth sounder in flash memory for off-line analysis.

The chart is displayed on a monochrome LCD which supports three zoom levels. Two megabytes of charts are stored on external flash memory, with resolutions of 160, 65 and 19 feet per pixel, allowing extreme precision in indicating position.

Two megabytes of flash memory are used to log boat position, velocity over ground, track, depth, velocity through water, and battery voltage. This information is then processed off-line to update a high-resolution chart, which is then used to generate updated charts to download to the boat computer.

This project was developed by Dr. Alex Dean professor at North Carolina State University.

Very cool. Now all I need is a boat!

Is this a student project then? If it has no commercial ties, can we get some code snippets to post? Working code to run graphics, UARTs, etc. would be nice to put in the Download area.

This was a professors project I ll attempt to get some code but I cant guarantee

seems good , and I saw someone setup a pc on his own audi A4 , included GPS and mobile system , so cool... maybe you can do that...