Idea for Openmoko application: Tide updates

[Joseph Reeves]

Matthew, I think these ideas are great. I often think that similar
applications could be developed using an Arduino board and some
specific modules, but once you price it all up you might as well just
use a FreeRunner.

You've probably seen boat race tracking on Google Maps:

http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2008/07/boat-race-tracking-on-google-maps.html

Of course, in my sailing days the only electronic device allowed on a
boat was a wrist watch, but that's not to say that a wireless marine
sensor network wouldn't be fun to play with; I'd welcome Openmoko
sailing developments and I'm sure somebody could make a _lot_ of money
if they did it properly... :)

Joseph

/goes off to think about what we used to pay for Fredrickson ratchet blocks...



2008/9/17 Crane, Matthew <mcrane03 at harris.com>:
>
> I'm from the coast, into surf/sailing.
>
> Ideas:
>
> - openmoko attached to bouys, phones home with bouy angle, wave forces
> - openmoko race application, allow other boats to watch speed, position,
> and accel forces on race participants (would be cool to see graphic of
> boat hitting waves and the angle while close hauled, other boats could
> view visualization when a gust hits a competitor)
> - openmoko in moored yacht, alert/webserve info on forces on boat,
> similar detect if boat is drifting away from mooring
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:community-bounces at lists.openmoko.org] On Behalf Of Michael
> Shiloh
> Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 12:32 PM
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> Subject: Idea for Openmoko application: Tide updates
>
>
> Surfers, fisherpeople, and I'm sure others care about the tides. Turns
> out there are websites and applications that provide this data. For a
> nice review:
>
> http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/003037.php
>
> Something like this would seem to be ideal for Openmoko, especially with
>
> GPS.
>
> Anyone interested?
>
> Michael
>
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