This page is for all the crazy ideas that we think of for improving the boat. Add at your leisure, but please dont delete any of them - no matter how crazy!
- connectivitty over 3G Ideas
- Submarine boat to avoid collisions with other boats
- "Porcupine" boat to sense collisions
- http://www.team-xecuter.com/x3/tutorials/x3pin16.htm XBOX driven boat?
- google earth integrated GUI
- VHF/UHF revolving-frequency proximity warning
- depth gauge
- digital reading of marine charts; path planning
- velocity prediction; polar plot optimization in real time
- load cell data transmitted in real time, displayed in GUI
- Hacking a fish finder, putting it in the bulb of the keel and using it to detect obstacles (there's a New Zealand company that uses NMEA data in their models too apparently!!)
- Predicting gusts with a barometer
- Using images/computer vision to detect objects (http://qmast.wikia.com/wiki/Computer_vision%3F)