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A Raspberry Pi heads for the Atlantic Ocean

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broadstairs:
Have you seen this, someone wants a boat controlled by a Raspberry Pi to cross the Atlantic Ocean  :o

Stuart

roseway:
The Raspberry Pi is a good bit more powerful than the computers used by the Apollo spacecraft, and those went all the way to the moon and back. :)

broadstairs:

--- Quote from: roseway on March 24, 2013, 11:56:07 AM ---The Raspberry Pi is a good bit more powerful than the computers used by the Apollo spacecraft, and those went all the way to the moon and back. :)

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Yes but they did have a human in the capsule who cold reboot them when necessary and there was more than one of them  ;)

Stuart

sevenlayermuddle:

--- Quote from: roseway on March 24, 2013, 11:56:07 AM ---The Raspberry Pi is a good bit more powerful than the computers used by the Apollo spacecraft, and those went all the way to the moon and back. :)

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I recently dismantled a 15 year old coffee grinder, and found a PIC microcontroller inside.   That probably makes it more powerful that the Apollo modules.

If anybody ever has time on their hands, landing a coffee grinder on the moon should thus be a simple task.   :D

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