Glass cockpit uses electronic instrument displays rather than analog instruments and gauges. While my new dashboard has one analog gauge and some traditional marine instruments (like autopilot control panel), it also has three LCD screens, so it can be considered a hybrid “glass cockpit”. Old dashboard Designing the new dashboard One of the design principles … Read More “Glass cockpit dashboard for a boat” »
Category: Displays
High brightness, sunlight readable displays for marine use
Boating electronics and hardware, 3D printing, Boats general, Displays
Displays, Boating electronics and hardware
The most challenging part of building your own DIY chart plotter or some other marine device with a display, is finding a suitable, and reasonably priced, high brightness, sunlight readable monitor. There is a lot of discussion about it, for example on OpenCPN wiki and on cruisersforum.com. I spend probably north of 100 hours researching … Read More “Sunlight readable monitors for boating and marine applications” »