Project description

! My first ever side- project ! 😎

The idea was to create an autonomous mini-boat from scratch. Most of my components came from Amamzon or Aliexpress or old piece of motors I found. I asembled a small prototyped with a GPS, a compass, and a large Arduino (I still don’t know why I chose the ATM Mega, looks a bit overkill now that I see it 😆).

The rest was mostly developing and testing a basic navigation algorithm on Arduino:

• I set up some key point where the boat should go.
• The motor would react linearly to the the remaining distance, and stop for 3 seconds at each key-point.
• The GPS was used to compute the distance to each keypoint.
• The compass was providing the direction to go, orienting the servo-motors controlling the rudder direction.

Pictures Comming Soon! (they are quite old)

I remember having issues as I first placed the compass inside the boat, next to the motor and GPS which were creating a magnetic field that was affecting the compass measurement. That’s why I decided to move to the front of the boat.