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” »
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Displays, Boating electronics and hardware
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Computer displays and TVs are getting larger and wider. The widescreen trend is driven by the fact that movies are shot on a widescreen format and also because it is just a better user experience to watch for example sports on a widescreen. Chart plotter aspect ratios have followed the general trend of displays going … Read More “Why chart plotter screen aspect ratio is all wrong” »