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By Dermot Tynan, over 9 years ago.
There is a race requirement which states that "Any boat which fails to transmit for more than 10 consecutive days will be disqualified."
While there are a number of ways of reporting position data back to Mission Control, from elaborate HF transmitters through to simple satellite position locators, we'll be using a Rock Block satellite modem. These devices can send byte sequences back to dry land via the Iridium satellite network. We will be sending four updates a day, of exactly 250 bytes each. Each message will include two or more payloads.
- February 21, 2013
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Mother
By Dermot Tynan, over 9 years ago.
The main computer on board Nostromo in the film Alien was called Mother. It seems only right that we should call our main processor by the same name.
- February 23, 2013
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The Software...
By Dermot Tynan, over 9 years ago.
I've been asked recently, about the software platforms used on board Beoga Beag. This seems as good a time as any, to talk about the various layers. As mentioned previously, the lower layer is a custom board, running an ATmega8 Atmel processor. The software (Igor and Otto) is custom-written in C for the boat.
- March 19, 2013
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