From the beginning the holy grail of our telemetry project has been to get valuable data and display it on two permanently mounted panels in our pilot house. It was a year in the making to get here, as we slowly built out our telemetry system. We would have approached this project sooner if I had seen a good write up on how easy and cheap this piece of the puzzle actually was. Our requirements were that a display had…
Hello and welcome to Part 2 of my blog posts series on building out the telemetry systems for MV Adventuress. In this post I am going to cover in detail how I built out the software for the Intel NUC. If you need a refresher on the overall components of our telemetry system go here for Part 1. My wife and I affectionally refer to our server as NUC-NUC and the little beast handles all our compute needs for Adventuress….
This will be one of several articles that I will be writing while floating around the Puget Sound this summer. One of the challenges with our last boat, an Ocean Alexander sedan, was little to no digital information available. And by digital information I mean streaming telemetry. In my profession telemetry is a key component in understanding complex system health and ensuring continuity of service. So when we purchased MV Adventuress in late 2018 I was determined to build up…