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Not hard hardware Have you got so many NMEA instruments
that linking them together causes problems with degraded signals? Have
you discovered that the typical GPS will not drive more than three or
four instruments? If so you need a buffer. In the shops these are typically £50 while you could make ours for a tenner! Have you got a gas alarm? We show you how to make a cheap gas alarm using pre-calibrated components from RS and a kit from Maplin. What about trickle charging
your batteries? It's easy to link them all together but that means a
fault on one will drain the rest, we can show you how to stop the
drain. Or, if you have more advanced skill, how about a fridge from a Peltier (TEC) device, or an Engine Monitor System?
Just plain fun Fun is good, fun is nice, do you want to listen for dolphins?
I don't know if the hydrophone project will catch them singing because
we've never been in the right place at the right time to try; but I
know it detects ship and boat propellors and it's fun! We show you how
to put together a couple of Maplin amplifiers to make a hydrophone.
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Software for all If you use
the Admiralty RYA Chart Plotter you may have been frustrated to find you cannot upload
the waypoints you create to your GPS. GPSWPUpload is a new utility which has all the functions you need
to upload and download waypoints from the Admiralty Plotter to a GPS using the Garmin protocol.
Stuck in a port with nothing to do to amuse the kids and yourselves? Stepping Stones
is a wondeful little game full of challenges and surprises. Written as
an educational game it is also superb as a general knowledge quiz; and
since you can write your own questions and answers, it can occupy you
on many different levels. Or try Bingo our simple little program that scrambles a list of questions and answers; or simply bingo numbers and rhyming calls.
If you are travelling you are likely to need all your bank, credit
card details, logon details; and so on to travel with you. This needs
everything wrapped up in an encrypted, portable file which is something
your browser and operating system cannot supply for you. NetXPasswords
allows you to manage the lot in a personal, portable but totally secure
way. For other personal files that you don't want to be looked at we
offer a file encryption program CrytptAFile which will securely wrap up any sort of computer file.
If you're down below and the wind is howling above isn't it nice to
watch the windspeed in relative comfort without venturing out? Our boat
has an internal helm position but no wind repeater so this program takes the wind instrument NMEA output and displays it in different formats on the laptop screen.
Finally, if you're a pilot you might like our simple VFR Flight Planner
that solves your vectors with a lot less effort than with the circular
slide rule, and gives you a nicely printed flight plan for your
clipboard.
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Send your ideas We are always keen to try new projects so if you have a problem you can't solve why not get in touch and see if you can arouse our interest. Would you like a program written? If it is likely to be of general interest we could well be interested in taking it on. How about PIC code? Or a webpage or a whole website? We're well qualified to take on both private and commercial work and we cost our time appropriately.
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