Custom ESP32-S3 development board — professionally manufactured by JLCPCB. A far cry from where it all started. It Started in a School Science Lab — Around 1998 Most people who get into electronics start with a kit, a tutorial, maybe a breadboard and some LEDs. I started by sneaking ferric chloride out of a school science lab to etch my first PCB. That was around 1998. I was living in the Maldives — a small island nation in the Indian Ocean — where there was no electronics supply chain, no maker community, no local PCB fab. Just a chemistry cabinet at school, a copper-clad board from somewhere, and a lot of curiosity. This post is about what the next 25+ years of PCB prototyping looked like from there. The early wins with proper chemicals, the years of improvisation when those chemicals disappeared, the real injuries, the failed boards, and finally — the moment JLCPCB changed ever...
Today we planed to conduct as much as possible test runs before sunset so we did three successful missions. For today's test new gadget was introduced to record video from front of the boat. So i modified a key chain camera( which the battery is damaged) and fixed a 3.7V battery to power it and it was gooood. :). I gave a name to this mod as "Go puroa".
Conclusion: There few code fixing to be done while calculating the next way-point. This is not a big issue or effect any mission runs. Problem is it does a 360 degree turn when going to next way-point. which is not a problem but better ways are always there and testing will make perfect each and everyday.
Go puroa
All the three test was good but due to some technical issues an unattended guys the test was bit delayed. The boat traveled around 60 - 70 meters wider way-point locations.
Command center which uploads all mission way-points and manual override if any thing goes wrong (if the boat goes too from reach due to some error).
Few data result of the test . Even though the sea is not calm enough the boat tries its best to with the small waves.
videos will be uploaded soon once all videos are converted to up loadable format to YouTube.
Conclusion: There few code fixing to be done while calculating the next way-point. This is not a big issue or effect any mission runs. Problem is it does a 360 degree turn when going to next way-point. which is not a problem but better ways are always there and testing will make perfect each and everyday.
Special thanks to onibe and nako ( aka whoknowz)
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