N II Deep Posted June 5, 2017 Share Posted June 5, 2017 Holland 6-3-17 N II Deep Did a late morning trip to play with our new homemade autopilot. Fished north between Tunnel Park to PS, 55 to 75 FOW Ended up 6 for 7, pulling lines by 11:30 Wire divers went 2 times 8" mix veggie Spin Doc with pickle sunshine fly out 120-ish 150 Copper went twice Green spoon with orange ladder, blue spoon with orange ladder Riggers down 40 went 3 times mix veggie std size. the prototype autopilot worked great I attached a video where you can see the touch screen behind the wheel that controls the hyd system that holds the course. we want to do a few more software updates to the program logic before we do the final install. 20170603_083411.mp4 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nailer Posted June 6, 2017 Share Posted June 6, 2017 Looks great Jon. Nice catch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plugs Posted June 6, 2017 Share Posted June 6, 2017 SWEET - When do you go into production?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N II Deep Posted June 6, 2017 Author Share Posted June 6, 2017 Production has been limited to one unit. but I may share a few pointer for you Shane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdB Posted June 8, 2017 Share Posted June 8, 2017 It would be interesting to hear the story behind your build, never heard of anyone making their own auto pilot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N II Deep Posted June 8, 2017 Author Share Posted June 8, 2017 Once we do a couple more test runs with it I will put a post out on what we did. what I can say right now we are less than $1000 into it minus our labor. the key was keeping it simple. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steelhead#1 Posted June 16, 2017 Share Posted June 16, 2017 Very cool. Are you using arduino? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N II Deep Posted June 20, 2017 Author Share Posted June 20, 2017 Yes, Raspberry Pi board, and a 7" touch screen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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