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Improve wind vane calibration

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The wind direction node can be improved to take the north magnetic field into account. It involves getting the north magnetic field magnitude during calibration and using the heading of...

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Failure handling: wet electronics

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We need sensors, detection and reaction to electronics being wet

smaria

We now have 2 LoRa modules. Can we have ssh through them? can we transmit simple commands like "go back home", "give us your position" etc. (yes this is situation...

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Sheet tension sensor?

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We realised that sail control might be easier if we could sense whether the sheet is under tension: if it's slack while we're trying to sail, we probably want to...

takluyver

Velocity estimation

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Get velocity from GPS and wave frequency from IMU.

tsaoyu

Detect when the boat is pulled back etc.

Nanoseb

Tack at the right moment in waves

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When the conditions are wavy you want to start the tack on the top of a wave to be able to get momentum from it and be less impacted by...

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Desing 3D printable bulb

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A bulb that can be filled with lead shot and attaches at the top with a go-pro holder would be nice. It probably needs a metal rod inside the 3D...

smaria

Making variables within the simulation.yaml files dynamic. Because it might be nice to be able to change them while running to study reaction of vessel

JaredMazlan

mybinder.org allows to run ipython notebooks online. It needs a couple of files describing dependencies (https://mybinder.readthedocs.io/en/latest/preparing.html). Not sure how useful this will be in our case, but it demands very...

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