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FishPi: Raspberry Pi Powered Autonomous Boat To Cross the Ocean
lukehopewell1 writes "The Raspberry Pi is a triumph in computing, and it's now set to become a triumph in robotics as one developer plans to build a model boat around it and sail it across the Atlantic Ocean, completely unmanned. It's codenamed FishPi and will see a model boat sail across the Atlantic all by itself save for a camera, GPS module, compass and solar panels."
The creator is posting updates on the build progress using a forum on his website.
"BitCoin"..."Raspberry Pi"...Bingo!
available on the cheap to a script kiddie near you
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
I would have made a tiny robotic pumpkin carriage and called it a Pumpkin Pi. But that's just me.
Shouldn't this be an article of after they built it and it about to leave on it's trip? I could say hey I'm creating a rocket launch system and rocket guidance system using Raspberry Pi that will take my hamster not only into near earth orbit but also using GPS and compass gliding back to earth to my backyard all caught on it's internal camera. Oh and it's all solar powered. Call it RocketPi. Come on.... Anyone can start building anything wait for it ready to be tested before everyone goes ape over it.
Come on now. It's a nifty device, that's about it.
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Woo hoo! I can't wait to pick the thing up on eBay after the Somali pirates get a hold of it! ;-)
I was wondering why a Kort Nozzle & Propeller were selected for propulsion. A wave propulstion system would be potentially more reliable for the long haul.
Just cough up the extra bucks and get a BeagleBone.
I hope he posts updates or enables live tracking..
That way we can try and sink it, I'll get the kickstarter project going.
Make it an underwater glider and give homeland security another panic attack.
get it?
Ah yes, the weekly Raspberry Pi post.
One post a week is really that bad?
The Daddy casts sleep on the Baby. The Baby resists!
Given that underwater gliders, usually with a fairly high degree of autonomy(if for no other reason than communicating underwater on teeny batteries is damn difficult), have been a thing in oceanography for some years, I imagine that team jackboots has either already had their panic attack, or is too dense to start now.
Incidentally, though: I'm actually surprised that they went with a boat design, rather than a glider design. Yes, submersion-proofing electronics isn't entirely trivial; but some of those gliders are crazy efficient, and have a convenient invulnerability to even the nastiest wind/waves/salt-spray forming a crust on stuff, by virtue of spending most of their life underwater...
Go to your local thrift store and get a used computer for $20.
Power consumption 50 times higher, weighs 20 times more, and approx zero I/O ports. You'd do better arguing cats and dogs are the same.
"Science flies us to the moon. Religion flies us into buildings." - Victor Stenger
Build something from other various products. How is hobby building anything more than consumerism?
Other than they both involved buying stuff, in just about every possible way. For one thing, hobby building usually requires thinking, innovation, and creativity, as well as re-use and a ton of other stuff consumerism finds absolutely abhorrent.
"None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license." --John Milton
So you make it a little bigger. Better yet get rid of the hull. Just press your drugs into a boat like shape, seal that in plastic and install the hardware to turn it into a DrugFishPi.
I am not sure how you would know which modem is a drug one or not. The only data the drugfishpi needs to send is final location.
some of those gliders are crazy efficient, and have a convenient invulnerability to even the nastiest wind/waves/salt-spray forming a crust on stuff, by virtue of spending most of their life underwater...
The problem is that they spend most of their life underwater, which means that they're not going to get a lot of solar power. Also, stuff can still crust on them, it just won't be salt. It'll be life.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Drug runner are much better of using onboard human brain power getting updates over FM radio.
The premise is that if you use robots you can spam them. Drugs are cheap where they are produced, some of them amazingly so. People are cheap too, but getting them to where you want them isn't necessarily. If you can build lots of small smuggling drones with toy technology and then spam your target with them, and have them receive-only until they are near their destination, there's no reason why they should be easily detected. The same is true, of course, of fleets of autonomous bombs.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
I would do the same, but make two, and call it pumpkin Tau!
Oh... wait... what? That's not where you were heading?
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The closed-source bootloader is actually only licensed for use on the Raspberry Pi and it runs on the totally undocumented VideoCore hardware, so even if somehow you did manage to get hold of the components you couldn't legally build your own. I suspect it might also require a custom ROM bootloader that's only on the chips supplied to Raspberry Pi too or something.
Should have been called "Life of Pi"
Not to be confused with fish pie, which sounds nasty (or Norwegian)
it's called kalakukko and it's from finland. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalakukko
and a song about flying kalakukko http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QTXqTCcoNI so we had flying fish pies in the fifties, therefore this thing about sailing a fishpie is primitive as hell, shame on them.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
At the rate that Raspberry Pi units are being made and shipped, this may very well be the first RPi that arrives on this side of the pond.
Don't get me wrong, I love the concept, I feel for the group that has designed the thing, I have just been frustrated at the lack of availability.
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Because you'd still need a RPi to interface with android so you could have the GPIO and such needed for control. This meets the requirements, an android device alone does not.
Persistent Volume manager for Kubernetes - https://github.com/dwimsey/openshift-pvmanager
Only problem would be that irresponsible users would fill the ocean with junk.
Too late...
Yep, when I was in the Navy, my sub would come back from a three month patrol pretty much covered in algae and young barnacles. In the summer sunshine in King's Bay, the smell was... impressive.
Did you RTFA or go to the guys website? Its a PROOF OF CONCEPT hull- he's going with a trimaran or catamaran for the actual sea trials. This is going on a lake. Do you really think that somebody who's going to all this trouble is going to just GUESS what will work on a TRANS ATLANTIC journey thats never been done before?
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