High-visibility LED instrument for sailors. NMEA 0183 over WiFi, six configurable data lines, tactical wind-shift bar, per-tack heel-compensated boatspeed — everything you need at a glance, even when the boat is on its ear.
Six data lines you pick — wind, speed, depth, heading, course, anything — plus a tactical bar at the bottom. Designed to be glanceable from across the cockpit and bright enough for direct sun.
Rolling-median TWD with a colored bar showing real-time shifts — wind shifting to starboard = green (right), to port = red (left). Read the breeze, not just the numbers.
Many boats only broadcast Apparent Wind. Pixel takes AWA + AWS + boatspeed and computes True Wind direction (TWD), speed (TWS), and angle (TWA) in real time — so what your tactician calls is true, not apparent. Switch between using STW (better when current is present) or SOG. Vector-averaged so the readout doesn't jitter at the 0/360 wrap. Even legacy NMEA gear becomes a true-wind sensor.
Green ▲ next to SOG when you're accelerating, red ▼ when you're losing speed. Read the boat's state without doing the math — instant feedback after a tack, when easing the kite, or when a wave knocks you back.
Per-tack, per-heel-angle correction tables. The paddlewheel underreads when the boat is on its ear — Pixel corrects it from your heel sensor, separately for port and starboard.
Per-channel moving averages — vector weighting for angles (no 359/0 jitter), linear for speeds. Tunable window per channel.
AWA offset, STW factor, and a 10×2 heel-correction grid edited live in the browser while you sail. Live raw vs corrected readouts on the calibration tab.
Pick the data type and color for each of six lines from a phone or laptop. No special software — just a web page.
Built-in battery delivers ~20 hours of continuous use on a single charge — a full regatta day or an overnight delivery without touching the boat's power. Recharge fast from the included 60 W charger; the display keeps running while plugged in.
Receives UDP NMEA from any modern multiplexer or N2K gateway. Standard protocol, no proprietary cables. Port and broadcast configurable.
A built-in light sensor adjusts the panel automatically to ambient conditions. Bright at noon, dim at twilight, never blinding at night.
Most LCD instruments black out at an angle behind polarized lenses. Pixel's LED panel emits its own un-polarized light, so the numbers stay bright and legible from any viewing angle — shades on, in direct sun, at the wheel or out on the rail.
Save up to three networks — boat, marina, home. Pixel connects to the strongest reachable. Falls back to a setup AP if everything fails.
Pulls new firmware from your own update server — one click on the System tab. No cables, no laptops on the dock.
Nearly every marine instrument on the market is an LCD — and LCDs have hard physical limits at sea. Pixel is a high-brightness LED matrix that doesn't share them.
Pixel is built around the things racing crews actually want to see: shift direction, true wind, accurate boatspeed at heel, and a glanceable layout that survives spray, sun, and panic.
The bottom bar is a real-time shift indicator: True Wind Direction is compared against a rolling median over a configurable window (default 10 minutes), and the bar grows in the direction the wind has shifted. Wind shifting to starboard grows a green bar to the right; shifting to port grows a red bar to the left. The further it extends, the bigger the shift. Bowman or tactician can read the shift from the rail without numbers, then call the lift or header for the tack you're on — and the median window tunes to your venue: short for shifty bays, long for steady ocean breeze.
Paddlewheels underread when the boat tips. Pixel reads your Roll over NMEA XDR and corrects boatspeed by an empirically-tuned curve — separate for port and starboard, ten heel points per side. The on-water calibration page shows live raw vs corrected, so you tune by feel against your reference (motoring baseline or SOG with no current).
If your gear sends AWA + AWS + boatspeed but not TWD, Pixel computes True Wind locally. Vector-averaged so it doesn't jitter at the 0/360 wrap.
Most race displays force you to page between data. Pixel shows six simultaneously, color-coded the way you choose. Tactician calls layline. Driver sees TWD and target boatspeed without scrolling.
High-luminance LED panels driven at 20 MHz — no flicker, no smearing under polarized sunglasses. Auto-brightness ramps you down for dawn starts and back up by the windward mark.
No cables snaking through the bulkhead. NMEA 0183 arrives over WiFi (UDP, port 2000), configuration runs from your phone, firmware updates pull themselves down. Connects to your boat's existing WiFi or runs its own setup AP — saves up to three networks so it auto-joins boat, marina, or home. Mount the display where you can see it, not where the wiring will reach.
Built-in battery gets you through a full regatta day, an overnight delivery, or a weeklong cruise without ever touching the boat's house batteries. Recharge fast with the included 60 W charger; the display keeps running while it's plugged in. Race-committee boats, J/24 cockpits, and dinghy decks where running power isn't an option — Pixel just goes where you put it.
Not racing? Pixel is just as at home on a cruising boat. The same glance-and-go display, framed around passages, anchorages, and shorthanded watches — using the instruments you already have.
Put depth, SOG, COG and heading on big, colour-coded lines you can read from the companionway or the helm. No menus, no paging — the numbers that keep you off the bottom and on the rhumb line are always on screen.
~20 hours per charge means it works at anchor, on a night passage, or on a boat where running a new instrument cable just isn't worth it. It never touches your house bank — recharge from the included 60 W charger and keep using it while it's plugged in.
Auto-brightness reads the ambient light and adjusts itself — bright at midday, gentle at dusk, and never blinding the helm on a night watch. Stays readable in direct sun and through polarized sunglasses.
Data arrives over WiFi, so there are no cables to fish through the boat. Put the display where the watchkeeper can actually see it — at the wheel, by the chart table, in the cockpit — and move it whenever you like.
Set it up from your phone in a couple of minutes. No app to install, no account, no cloud, no monthly fee. It simply listens to the NMEA your boat already produces and shows it, clearly.
Six lines you choose: wind for trimming, depth for gunkholing, SOG/COG for the passage plan, heading for the autopilot watch. Reconfigure in seconds from your phone as the day — or the weather — changes.
Pixel is a display — it shows the data your boat is already producing. To use it, three things must be in place on your boat.
Wind sensor, GPS, paddlewheel, depth transducer, compass, heel sensor — whichever data you want on the display is data your boat must already be measuring.
Any commercial gateway that broadcasts NMEA 0183 over UDP works. Examples:
If your boat is on NMEA 2000 only, you need an N2K → NMEA 0183 gateway — most of the brands above do this conversion in one box.
Most gateways either create their own access point or join an existing onboard router. Pixel joins the same WiFi and starts listening — no apps, no cloud, no subscription.
Default UDP port 2000, configurable on the System tab. Anything your gateway broadcasts that Pixel understands (HDM, HDT, COG, AWA, AWS, TWA, TWS, SOG, STW, DPT, RSA, XDR…) shows up automatically.
Each of the six display lines can show any of these data types, in any color. Live changes from the web UI.
Full setup, calibration, firmware-update, and troubleshooting guide for the Pixel display. Read it in your browser or download a PDF for the boat.
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