2023-09-24, 01:52 PM
My nav station is below and I would prefer not to have a phone in the cockpit to control PyPilot. What I would like are three waterproof momentary buttons in the cockpit:
Standby, Port, Starboard.
Short press for 2 degrees, long press for 10 degrees and very long press to tack.
When standby on, press moves linear actuator.
My thought is a small Arduino to take button input and send to RPi via USB cable.
I know I could have cable to the nav station RPi, but one USB cable seems cleaner.
Comments? I see it as a winter project.
Philip
Standby, Port, Starboard.
Short press for 2 degrees, long press for 10 degrees and very long press to tack.
When standby on, press moves linear actuator.
My thought is a small Arduino to take button input and send to RPi via USB cable.
I know I could have cable to the nav station RPi, but one USB cable seems cleaner.
Comments? I see it as a winter project.
Philip