I'm a technology nerd that loves playing piano, playing with new electronics, being on the water, and solving new problems.
After our Final trip on Jammy [https://seabits.com/final-trip-on-jammy/], I began looking for the next member of our sailing family. I had already been looking prior to the final
A while ago I wrote about my solar panel setup [https://seabits.com/solar-learning-curve]. I recently revisited the site after 6 months, and lots of problems with managing things remotely.
This weekend’s trip was with Josh, Heather and myself on Jammy, and was planned to be an uneventful, easy trip to one of our favorite destinations, Poulsbo. I’ve
A while ago I wrote about my SignalK first look [https://seabits.com/signalk-first-look/] experience, and the captures I had taken to help the dev team with various systems and
I am always looking for better ways to monitor things – from my home network, to our family cabin temperatures, to my sailboat. I have tried other vessel monitoring solutions [https:
SignalK [http://signalk.org/] is an astounding new project that has a ton of potential for marine electronics and connectivity. The concept is something we have needed in the industry
A month or so ago we had some brazen trespassers [http://photos.stevem.net/Cabin/Trespassers/] at our family cabin in Eastern Washington. Being the tech in the family, and
Tank monitoring on a sailboat is not the most glamorous of topics. Recently, it became of great interest when the head holding tank overflowed at the very end of a
I continue to tweak my scripts and data collection on my NMEA 2000 server that I added to last year in Data collection from the sailboat [https://seabits.com/data-collection-from-the-sailboat/
For the last few years, I have had a server of some sort on Jammy collecting various amounts of data. As my NMEA 2000 network continues to grow, I look
I am not a woodworker, so most of my modifications to Jammy where design is involved has been to remove something made of wood, and somehow mount an instrument, device,
I’ve been working on finishing off my NMEA 2000 network for the last year or two, and one of the pieces I wanted to have in it was something
