PC/104 Consortium Announces Design Contest Winners

An anonymous reader writes "The PC/104 Consortium announced the winners of its annual design contest today at the Embedded Systems Conference in San Francisco. One winner was an autonomous model helicopter developed by a team from the University of Southern California (USC). From the writeup: 'Not only can AVATAR fly without human intervention, it can also perform GPS waypoint navigation, autonomous vision-based landing and autonomous sensor-based take-off, and image processing from three Firewire cameras.' Check out the cool photos and other details!"

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y2k problem?

[njchick]

pc104? Maybe they meant pc2004?

PC/104

[Otter]

First thought: they need a consortium to make 104 key keyboards? Is there a PC/105 consortium also?

Second thought: what is the difference between 104 and 105 key keyboards, anyway? Whenever I do a Linux install, I never have the energy to count them (and which ones do you count?). I just go with 105, figuring it must be better.

Third thought: here's a link to the PC/104 site. I still don't understand what it is, exactly, but then I'm just another person holding forth here on computing despite knowing nothing about non-desktop systems.

A.V.A.T.A.R.

[oDDmON oUT]

Skynet beta is here *now*!