where can you get a gps for
under 10 usd??


----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Michaels" <oricom@USWEST.NET>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 8:35 PM
Subject: Re: [OT]: PICinaBottle <-- Long range position feedback anyone ?


> Couple of thoughts. Sounds like there isn't a prayer that
> any kind of boat can do it alone. If too small, it will sink
> first big wave. If too big, someone will see it from their
> fishing boat, and pick it out of the water. Else an oil
> tanker will run it over.
>
> So how's about a "PICinaBottle Contest". PIC, solar battery,
> tiny GPS receiver, small 20M band morse code xmtr, little
> whip antenna sticking out the top, waterproofed in plastic.
> $10USD for the whole thing. Toss the bottle in the ocean,
> see where it goes. Winner is longest running, longest distance
> traveled.
>
> More to reality - some guy named Jim Clark [SGI, Netscape,
> Healtheon] built a $30,000,000 automated sailboat with 24
> SGI workstations on board. He can sit in his office in silicone
> vallee and steer the boat realtime in the south pacific.
> Uses icebergs for slalom courses. You might check what he
> uses for a comm link.
>
> http://www.salon.com/people/bc/1999/11/24/clark/index.html
> http://www.businessweek.com/chapter/lewis_m.htm
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