FishPi: Raspberry Pi Powered Autonomous Boat To Cross the Ocean 136
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.
Bingo! (SlashDot Bingo) (Score:5, Funny)
"BitCoin"..."Raspberry Pi"...Bingo!
Re:So... (Score:5, Funny)
I would have made a tiny robotic pumpkin carriage and called it a Pumpkin Pi. But that's just me.
Re:drone boats - subs (Score:4, Funny)
Make it an underwater glider and give homeland security another panic attack.
Should have called it PiSeas (Score:2, Funny)
get it?
Re:eBay (Score:5, Funny)
Breaking news: Somali pirates are now in the Atlantic. And now we go to Steve for the weather.
Re:Low carriage capacity (Score:4, Funny)
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.
Re:So... (Score:3, Funny)
Oh... wait... what? That's not where you were heading?