Hello from The Netherlands

Hello guys,

I am Josse from The Netherlands. I lived in the middle of the country with my wife and son. As I have a passion for ships and have had education in shipbuilding I decided it would be a great idea to build a model of the ship which I helped to build during my internship. That is now 12 years ago. In those 12 years I started work, got a floating and sailing hull in about 6 months and I took a total of 6 years to come to the conclusion that my start was way to fast and uncorrectable mistakes had got into the hull. I decided to have the first hull demolished and start from scrap again. In the remaining 6 years I managed to get the hull almost smooth, but not quite yet. I made myself 2 different transmitters, the first the size of a small desk (demolished as well by now, this was totally unpractical) and a much smaller one, about the size of a 15,6" laptop. This transmitter is still work in progress. This can best be considered a seperate project, partly because I chose it should only send simple codes which the boats at some point should encrypt to control whatever needs to be controlled. 

The boat itself is an entire electronics project in and on itself. The brain will be a Raspberry Pi (need to buy a new one since 1 of my 2 old Model B's has broken down) and the work will be executed by a mix of 4 16channel PWM modules and a still to be detemernined number of 16 channel input/output expanders. I already have a PWM module, unfortunately I never got it to work. 

Since this is an introduction I'll leave it here, though I have 1 question already, where can I best put my topics? It's a high tech hobby but also a project. Since it's a boat rather then a train I'm not sure my project will fit in there. Might also be worth making 2 topics, 1 for the transmitter and one for the boat electronics.

My own electronics knowledge is basic, though I did have lessons of basic electronics at school. My programming skills are very basic though my father is well educated in programming albeit for data handling purposes rather then reading sensors and using this to control appliances.  This is the main reason for my registration here, it can really use your help. 

Looking forward to having a nice time here and to learn as much as I can.

Greetings Josse