petera650 0 Posted September 14, 2015 Share Posted September 14, 2015 Any update on availability? I'm building a Pi-based nav computer for my boat, already publishing all kinds of NMEA data over WiFi to my iPad and iPhone. The dAISy (especially a breakout) would fit nicely. Also, I live right on the water in SF Bay and I have a lot of signals available to me all the time, so I would totally be up for testing "alpha" breakouts. Keep up the great work! P.S. A comment about product quality: When you are building a disruptive technology, you don't have to be as good as your overpriced competition. You just need to be good enough and substantially cheaper. So, as long as dAISy gives the average mariner a chance to detect a ship a few miles away and take evasive action, it is good enough. You're not competing with Raymarine, Garmin or Digital Yacht (yet). You're competing with non-consumption. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
chicken 630 Posted September 14, 2015 Author Share Posted September 14, 2015 Thanks @@petera650 and good points about price vs. performance. At least at the lower end ($200 range), I wouldn't call my competition overpriced. You get a lot of electronics for the money. But then, you got a lot of meat and bones with woolly mammoths too That being said, we made great progress with the firmware. Adventurous owners of dAISy (old and new) can check out the new firmware here: https://github.com/astuder/dAISy/tree/master/Firmware As for availability, I have a (inadequate) stockpile of assembled dAISys, but I'm waiting for USB cables before I put them up on Tindie. I hope availability will improve in late October when the first batch assembled by a contract manufacturer should be ready. Drop me a PM if you're interested in the breakout board (BoosterPack). Quote Link to post Share on other sites
StrangerM 25 Posted September 14, 2015 Share Posted September 14, 2015 So. The upgrade does not work correctly in WinXP. I do not like my new PC with Win8.1 But I had to use it. I have made upgrade (USB3 4.02->4.03). Quote Link to post Share on other sites
chicken 630 Posted September 14, 2015 Author Share Posted September 14, 2015 @@StrangerM What did not work on XP? I don't have an XP machine to try. You probably won't notice any performance difference compared to 4.02 anyways. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
StrangerM 25 Posted September 14, 2015 Share Posted September 14, 2015 I understand. But I wanted to check up your utility working. It seems to me it is useful. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
chicken 630 Posted September 14, 2015 Author Share Posted September 14, 2015 The firmware upgrade tool is from TI. They also have a Python version that's distributed via the MSP430 USB Developer Package: http://www.ti.com/tool/msp430usbdevpack Quote Link to post Share on other sites
StrangerM 25 Posted September 15, 2015 Share Posted September 15, 2015 There is CCS3.3, 5.5, 6.1 (+XDS510) in my XP PC . They work well. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
chicken 630 Posted October 14, 2015 Author Share Posted October 14, 2015 It's official, dAISy graduated from my 2nd bedroom to a professional assembly line. My Tindie store should soon be stocked for longer than 3 days in a row. I did go with a local contract manufacturer. NRE for the first batch is a lot higher than the Chinese competition, but it's manageable when amortized over 100 boards. And it includes a free tour of the factory In other news, I received PCBs for the next revision of the dAISy BoosterPack. I use these as prototyping platform to experiment with the SiLabs Si4362 radio. I also added a few pads for the TX pin to make it usable as a Si446x breakout board. PM me if you want one of the spares of the BoosterPack. I will give away the unpopulated PCBs for free, $10 for the populated PCB. Free shipping in the US, $5 outside the US. Fmilburn, tripwire, JonnyBoats and 2 others 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bluehash 1,581 Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 Congratulations! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
chicken 630 Posted October 17, 2015 Author Share Posted October 17, 2015 The Army of dAISy For those that contacted me about the BoosterPack: It looks like the stencil got lost in the mail. Might take another week or two until I can build them. tripwire and abecedarian 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fmilburn 446 Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 It looks like modern art. I think you should call it the dAISy Navy. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
StrangerM 25 Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 Hello. It`s dAISy BoosterPack (thank you very much, Adrian) + GPS USB + RaspberryPI 2 = WiFi AIS+GPS Fmilburn and chicken 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fmilburn 446 Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 Hello @@StrangerM Nice work... I have been working on something very similar. Would you be willing to post your code? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
StrangerM 25 Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 Yes of course. For RasPI. When I shall debug a starting script. While it is used gpsd for gps and socat for AIS. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
StrangerM 25 Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 Ops. There is not dAISy`s driver for Debian. Ok, without RasPI - only WinXP with OpenCPN. :-) Waiting for driver... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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