HALPI2 Prototype Update
- 2025-03-31
- Matti Airas
I have been developing a new marine Raspberry Pi computer for the past few months. HALPI2 is a full-fledged Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 (CM5) based custom carrier board packaged in a waterproof cast aluminium enclosure.
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Sailor Hat for Raspberry Pi v2 Development Update
- 2022-12-25
- Matti Airas
Introduction The original Sailor Hat for Raspberry Pi had some success as a marine embedded computer power supply and interface board, but the global semiconductor shortage has made it difficult to obtain the required components, and no boards have been manufactured since August 2021. Even though multiple interesting Raspberry Pi CM4 base boards have appeared during the past year, none have provided similar power management features as the SH-RPi. Due to frequent inquiries about the SH-RPi availability, I (Matti Airas) have decided to continue the development of the SH-RPi v2, which will be a completely redesign new version of the Sailor Hat for Raspberry Pi.
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Create an OpenPlotter Server with Sailor Hat for Raspberry Pi
- 2021-05-28
- Matti Airas
Would you like to build a boat server for displaying fancy dashboards and for logging all historical data of your boat’s behavior, but don’t know where to begin?
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Sailor Hat for Raspberry Pi is available!
- 2021-05-14
- Matti Airas
Sailor Hat for Raspberry Pi is available! SH-RPi together with a Raspberry Pi makes for a perfect hardware for marine embedded computers such as a Signal K server or an OpenCPN plotter. It will safely power a Raspberry Pi using your boat’s 12V or 24V power system and also provides advanced power management features such as controlled shutdowns, uninterrupted power supply functionality for power glitches and voltage drops, and hardware watchdog features, resetting the Raspberry Pi if the operating system crashes. It also has an NMEA 2000 compliant isolated CAN bus interface that can also be used to power the device.
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