How to make an RC boat speed display?

What components are needed?

Speed display – boat & wind

To track your navigations live, all you need is an all-in-one ESP32 controller : touchscreen, Wi-Fi, SD card reader, and built-in battery. We chose the M5Stack Core2 v1.1 ($47) which combines all of this in a single compact package.

To store the training data (boat GPS track, wind speed), you also need a 32 GB microSD card, formatted in FAT32.

The above SD Card are working very well.

🚤 During your workouts :

• The boat's GPS sends its position in real time

• The buoy's anemometer transmits wind speed

• Data is displayed live on the Core2 screen

  
  

📊 What you win :

• Instantly see your speed and heading relative to the wind

• Optimize your live settings to improve your VMG

• Record your sessions to SD card and replay them for a detailed debrief

• Compare your performance from one session to another and progress faster

  
  

It's much more than just a display: it's a digital tool for progressing in RC sailing.