Control? Power!

Ok... so we have a boat and a servo controller. Now for some node. Kristian is busy writing a c lib for node to allow him to controll the servo. Meanwhile Sebastian is in charge of power.

The boat is now connected to a USB charger and it works... well the rudder does - not the engine. It's just not satisfied with 5.5 V.

Hacking c and hating mac. Kristian and macs just don't play nice.

We have boat

So here's the idea: We buy a radio controlled boat and rip out the reciever. We then install a servo controller instead and hook it up to a Raspberry Pi. Then we attach a GPS, two cameras - one for forward and one for backward view, and a 3G modem.

Then we install nodejs and program it to control all the devices. It will then serve up a web page which we can surf to with an iPad. The web page will display the GPS position, using Google maps, the cameras and provide a touch interface to controll the throttle and rudder.

Sound ok? Yay - let's go!

Kristian and Sebastian doing some soldering

The servo controller in place

The boat

Actual working GPS code

Aaaaand some more soldering