Hey Dan, Let me know where you can get GPS modules for < $10. ;-) Greg Maki -----Original Message----- From: Dan Michaels <oricom@USWEST.NET> To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU> Date: Thursday, October 19, 2000 9:36 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 > >-- >http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: >"[PIC]:","[SX]:","[AVR]:" =uP ONLY! "[EE]:","[OT]:" =Other "[BUY]:","[AD]:" =Ads > > > > > -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: "[PIC]:","[SX]:","[AVR]:" =uP ONLY! "[EE]:","[OT]:" =Other "[BUY]:","[AD]:" =Ads