Three wireless motion pods on a microsecond-class relative clock, a base computer that learns your hull, and a drive interface that whispers into your existing autopilot. Predictive steering — assembled, flashed, calibrated, supported.
Sealed IP67 pods for bow, midships and aft. Drift-free fused attitude at 50 Hz on a hardware-latched shared clock; weeks on a charge; no wiring, no holes in the boat.
Quad-core base with the beacon-master radio, onboard Wi-Fi access point, local telemetry broker, and the prediction engine that learns your hull in 30–50 logged hours.
Smart motor-controller interface for your existing hydraulic or wheel pilot. Failover by construction: lose the brain and the proven reactive pilot is already steering.
Reference Tier-1 hydraulic stack: reversible pump, balanced ram, hose kit, reserve cylinder and fittings — the hardware our shipped tuning profiles are calibrated on.
| Item | Qty | What it does | Kit | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wireless motion pod (BB-POD-01) | 3 | 9-axis fused attitude + vertical acceleration, sealed IP67, radio-synced clock | included | $370 / set |
| Base computer + beacon radio (BB-CORE-01) | 1 | Prediction engine, sea-state classifier, onboard Wi-Fi AP + helm display server | included | $194 |
| Drive interface (BB-HELM-01) | 1 | Motor-controller link to your pilot, rudder feedback, 200 ms watchdog failover | included | $86 |
| Mounting kit (industrial Dual Lock, cabling) | 1 | Tool-free pod placement high on stringers — never in the bilge | included | — |
| Reference kit | everything above, assembled, flashed and calibrated | ≈ $650 | ||
| Tier-1 actuator package (BB-ACT-T1) | 1 | SeaStar-class reversible pump + balanced ram + hoses + reserve — optional; bring your own drive otherwise | optional | $2,995 |
Bring-your-own: a 12 V supply at the helm and your existing rudder. Tier-2 (non-hydraulic) drives receive standard heading/rudder commands — supported, without shipped tuning profiles.
Every board in the kit uses the same Qwiic (JST-SH 1.0 mm) I²C connector, so there is one cable and one spare to carry — and it is the industry-standard pinout, shared with SparkFun Qwiic and Adafruit STEMMA QT parts. Sensor connectors sit inside the sealed enclosures; the pods themselves need no wiring and put no holes in the boat.
A 12 V, 35 A distribution node whose branch circuits are USB PD contracts instead of fuses: eight USB-C ports (two at 140 W, two of clean fixed 12 V, four fast-charge) and one USB-A, an ideal-diode front end with load-dump clamps, a current shunt the supervisor reads, and a potted 12 V pigtail so a hardwired light or fan can hang off a port. Sealed and conduction cooled.
The bow pod measures the crest seconds before it reaches the rudder. All three pods share one silicon-latched clock, so the wave's transit across your hull is a measured number, not a guess.
A supervisor watches the last 30–90 s and picks the active steering expert — harbor, flat water, quartering swell, short chop, or gale — with a dwell timer so one rogue wave never flips the mode.
Counter-rudder starts before the stern swings, throttled by a single authority dial that ships at zero and earns its way up on your sea trials. Lose the brain, and your stock pilot is already steering.