I am happy to report this worked out pretty darn well.
Anyone wanting to see details on how to cram Sean's Pypilot (controller as well as motor driver unit) into the head unit of an old Autohelm 2000, please check out the pictures here:
http://guldburken.gote.org/maxi999/pypilot/
I've done some sailing with it and it works just as expect, there is no noticeable magnetic interference from the motor driver ICs.
Now I am waiting for the next release of Pypilot so I can feed wind data to it via my Nmea4Wifi, and do steer-to-wind. And then maybe look into how to rotate the display 90 degrees in software.
Any questions I'd be happy to answer them.
Anyone wanting to see details on how to cram Sean's Pypilot (controller as well as motor driver unit) into the head unit of an old Autohelm 2000, please check out the pictures here:
http://guldburken.gote.org/maxi999/pypilot/
I've done some sailing with it and it works just as expect, there is no noticeable magnetic interference from the motor driver ICs.
Now I am waiting for the next release of Pypilot so I can feed wind data to it via my Nmea4Wifi, and do steer-to-wind. And then maybe look into how to rotate the display 90 degrees in software.
Any questions I'd be happy to answer them.