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{{Project
|shortDescription=A display where a ship's wheel controls a virtual ship on a screen to demonstrate how [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Range_light Range Lights] work
|longDescription=This project is in progress as of 2021-10.

The [[Selkirk Marine Museum]] asked us to set up a display about [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Range_light Range Lights], maritime navigation aids that help a vessel stay in a channel. We set up an [[Interactive Display]] that uses an [[Arduino]] to detect the movement of a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship%27s_wheel ship's wheel], which lets the user control a display created in [[Pygame]] on a [[Raspberry Pi]] that simulates
steering a ship to bring it in line with a set of range lights. 

The museum provided an antique ship's wheel for this. We designed, 3d printed and integrated the hall sensors into the wheel to measure the wheel movement via quadrature encoding. We also provided the graphics and video components for the game.
|skillSet=3D Modelling; 3D Printing; Arduino; Electronics; Graphic Design; Making; Programming; Raspberry Pi
|projectType=Interactive Display; Museum Display
|northForge=No
}}

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