2021-08-03, 11:07 AM
(2021-08-03, 08:34 AM)Sea-and-Sea Wrote: This looks like a work of art Chris. I realise this post is a little old now, but how did this end up? Did it work as expected?
Colin
Hi Colin,
I have shown the 10" plotter on the Boot 2020 tradeshow in Dusseldorf/Germany. We have had our own open source booth there
showing OpenCPN, Signal K, AvNav and a lot of DIY electronics, CAN bus, ESP32 and so on.
We got a nice contact to a company that wanted to mill the enclosure from aluminium. They ordered a 30 mm aluminium sheet
the same day! But unfortunately some weeks later Corona showed up and the project was cancelled.
By end of the summer with low Corona rates we were planning to be on the Boot 2021 tradeshow because we had the opportunity
to be part of the tradeshow itself. Means we have not to pay a booth and get much more space! But again Corona ruined it.
I was working on a new pcb with the Raspberry compute module 4, NVME flash drive, improved graphic chip and so on. But I stopped
this project when it was clear that the Boot 2021 tradeshow will not happen.
In some weeks the Maker-Space II here in Munich will open and they bought a brand new pick & place machine. More feeders, bigger,
faster, more precise. I talked with the Maker-Space guys and they are thinking about to invest in vacuum casting.
A waterproof enclosure for the display is an ongoing problem. I have milled the enclosure for my plotter from a 25 mm PU sheet.
This means milling time around eight hours for one enclosure! This makes no sense even for a small batch of displays.
Currently I have some projects to finish but then I am thinking to finish the CM4 board. Hopefully I can populate the pcb with the
new pick & place machine in one pass, this would be a big step forward.
During summer I have renewed my 7" plotter with a RPi 4 and SmartiPi touch enclosure. Some 3d printed parts, my IR-Remote
control and running AvNav: https://www.segeln-forum.de/board194-boo...%C3%A4use/
Chris