Red boat, Grey boat

Boats, boats, boats

This summer I got hired to work on some RC controlled boats. The grey boat is part of an Erasmus+ project of several countries with the goal of teaching students and children about making and controlling such boats. I was hired to work on its electronics. The boat itself was made by some other very skilled people. The red boat is meant to be a food delivery drone on water. I worked on it during an internship before and a bit during summer.

Grey boats electronics

I needed to make the whole thing be controllable with some controller and to make it collect a lot of data with a lot of sensors. I used an Arduino Due for the boat and an Arduino Uno for the controller. The boat and the controller were communicating with NRF24. When the sensors, I needed to add pH, distilled oxygen, temperature, GPS, accelerometer sensors and some others. All the info from sensors needed to be saved to a SD card and some info needed to be sent back to the remote like battery voltage and connection strength. All this was done in a span of about 2 months.

Red boats electronics

Working on the red boat was hard since a lot of people have worked on it before. It was a real challenge trying to find ways to fix its problems not knowing where to start. It was being controlled by a Pixhawk 6C and working with Pixhawk was also a challenge. In the end I did not finish my work with this boat since summer was coming to an end. I did manage to make fix some quirks here and there though.

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