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DIY 10" sunlight readable plotter
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Hi all,

i am using OP since beginning of 2016 with a RPi 2 and RPi 3 and the original 7" display
and the 19design enclosure. I am still impressed about the success of OP.

The 7" display is OK for general navigation. But if you want to display some readings,
compass or wind vane the display becomes too small and it is unreadable if the sun shines
directly to it.

So I was looking for alternative displays, monitors, tablets and so on. I am sure some of
you have had the same idea and you have found some overpriced marine monitors and
nothing else. Having a tablet with waterproof case on deck using vnc is not really what i want.

Time to build your own?

Two weeks ago I have ordered a 1200 nits sunlight readable 10.1" display from china.
Together with a touch-screen and hdmi-lvds controller board. Costs are $110, shipping
via DHL included. The LCD alone is around $55 without touch, pcb and shipping.

My idea is to take a Raspberry Pi compute module which is a RPi without all the connectors
and unwanted electronic that fits to a 200pin DIMM socket like the elderly RAM modules.

The disadvantage is you have to build a pcb with all the electronic needed. This means power
supply, usb hub, hdmi to lvds interface and so on.

The advantage is you get access to all the connections of the RPi. And you don´t need any
cables except the power cable if you include all the electronic you want to this pcb.

The goal is basically a sunlight readable RPi enabled monitor.
 It could be improved by compass, imu and other sensors, as well as interfaces like nmea.

If there is some interest we could start a forum project on this.

All the best,
Chris
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Messages In This Thread
DIY 10" sunlight readable plotter - by BellaX - 2018-10-22, 10:42 PM
RE: DIY 10" sunlight readable plotter - by BellaX - 2018-10-23, 08:22 PM
RE: DIY 10" sunlight readable plotter - by BellaX - 2018-10-23, 10:32 PM
RE: DIY 10" sunlight readable plotter - by BellaX - 2018-10-25, 10:04 AM
RE: DIY 10" sunlight readable plotter - by BellaX - 2018-10-31, 09:10 PM
RE: DIY 10" sunlight readable plotter - by BellaX - 2018-12-14, 04:36 PM
RE: DIY 10" sunlight readable plotter - by BellaX - 2019-01-20, 11:45 PM
RE: DIY 10" sunlight readable plotter - by BellaX - 2019-02-06, 06:54 PM
DIY 10" sunlight readable plotter - by svtgd - 2019-03-09, 12:35 AM
RE: DIY 10" sunlight readable plotter - by BellaX - 2019-03-09, 03:56 PM
DIY 10" sunlight readable plotter - by svtgd - 2019-03-09, 04:14 PM
RE: DIY 10" sunlight readable plotter - by BellaX - 2019-04-03, 04:59 PM
RE: DIY 10" sunlight readable plotter - by BellaX - 2019-05-20, 02:10 PM
RE: DIY 10" sunlight readable plotter - by CianH - 2019-05-20, 02:29 PM
RE: DIY 10" sunlight readable plotter - by BellaX - 2019-05-20, 03:51 PM
RE: DIY 10" sunlight readable plotter - by BellaX - 2019-08-09, 09:28 AM
RE: DIY 10" sunlight readable plotter - by BellaX - 2021-08-03, 11:07 AM

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