Making a Robust Vessel

Project description

It's almost weekend in our ongoing project to?create a semi-autonomous vessel, using and Arduino MEGA and some affordable shields and hardware supplements, and so we are going to take it easy today. No additions to the hardware...just a few software tricks! In the past four days we built a controller for our model boat, which can read GPS signals, send the coordinates to the?Aquabots Client, after which the vessel will get heading and thrust data to send it somewhere over the globe. However, it would be a bit presumptious to put your vessel in a major shipping lane right now, because this…