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# Open Source AIS Transponder (Class B)
# Project "MAIANA": The Open Source AIS Transponder
I started this project around 2015 with the intention of experimenting and eventually building something for my own boat.
I was not impressed with commercial AIS class B transponders. They seemed bloated, expensive and some of them
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![Image](images/UnitExterior.jpg?raw=True "Exterior View")
I have refined the design somewhat, and it now has a name: It's called "Maiana", borrowed from a Pacific atoll in the Kiribati islands. I do intend to trademark this, in the same way that "Arduino" is a trademark that identifies the original rather than the many clones that will inevitably emerge.
I have refined the design somewhat, and it now has an "official" name, borrowed from a Pacific atoll in the Kiribati islands. I do intend to trademark this, in the same way that "Arduino" is a trademark that identifies the original rather than the many clones that inevitably emerged.
## Overall description