downwind autopilot

[PonoBill]

It's kind of fun to look back through youtube at all the silly shit I've done. I decided at one point that a radio controlled rudder would be cool--I think it was Admin's idea--but I added an autopilot in the mix, which simply let me press both steering buttons to capture a compass heading and then hold that heading, or slowly make it's way back to it after I turned away from the direction. It all worked really well, though my waterproofing wasn't so great. After I toasted a few prototypes I wandered off to something else.

[surfcowboy]

I'm gonna need you to put some remote control on this tow boogie I'm designing.

[PonoBill]

Already got that solved. Just need to write a few thousand lines of crappy code.

Here's the old autopilot:


the tow bogie one is based on an open system called Meshtastic. Cool stuff.