Sponsored by PCBWay. When I was young, me and my dad used to go out sailing together. This project channels my childhood into a classic aka: Matchstic project - an autonomous drone boat. Its 3D printed, using my usual PixHawk and Raspberry Pi combo for control. Its prototype number 1 of my attempt at the microtransat, an international competion to send an autonomous or unmanned vessel across the Atlantic Ocean. Gotta set those ambitions high, huh! 🌐 Links PCBWay - Video sponsor https://www.pcbway.com/ Microtransat https://www.microtransat.org/ How to connect Pixhawk and Raspberry Pi (telemetry cable, and using MAVProxy) https://www.hackster.io/Matchstic/connecting-pixhawk-to-raspberry-pi-and-nvidia-jetson-b263a7 Tuning ArduPilot (rover docs, but the same for boats) https://ardupilot.org/rover/docs/rover-tuning-process.html 3D designs for the hull (missing velcro strap blocks) https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/6aqov1fkovef1cz8ydva6/h?rlkey=xdjmy19a6o28bf5ej58jga6pu&dl=0 😎 Social Stuff Mastodon: https://mastodon.online/@akamatchstic Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/akamatchstic 🎞️ Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:02 - Building the hull 05:48 - Electronics 06:58 - Bathtub test 08:57 - Lake tests 12:03 - Tuning 14:22 - Final test ℹ️ Attributions Samuel Fielder - Woodstock's second sea trip at Weston https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYSMrlpYGIE 🎵 Music In order of usage: bezserca - Purpose https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8lYrw60nOM TrackTribe - Upstate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idNx5u1INwY DivKid - Icelandic Arpeggios https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxoq8jEGbBo Punch Deck - Neon Underworld https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4JaMgIfAK0 Alex-Productions - Startup https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQIaXNqfsAQ Punch Deck - Persistence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XAcvJGmZko BVG x møndberg - insomnia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sCEjO3tMaE nihilore - Garden http://www.nihilore.com/prog-rock Depth Fuse - French Fuse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThNZoDYsuSE Punch Deck - Elegance in Simplicity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrCYuJ30kaM Keywords: ArduPilot, PixHawk, Pix32, microtransat