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>You could not actually guide a spaceship to the moon with a smart doorbell. I wish some wealthy eccentric would fund this competition.
by LiquidSky 7y ago
>You could not actually guide a spaceship to the moon with a smart doorbell.
I wish some wealthy eccentric would fund this competition.
- cgrealy 7y agoI'm reasonably sure that given access to the doorbells processor, you could, in fact, guide a spaceship to the moon. I mean, the killer advantage that the Apollo computer had in getting to the moon was the giant rocket atop which it sat, but if you're talking functionally (as in, correct outputs for a given set of inputs), I've no doubt that pretty much any computing device could easily run the necessary software.
- taeric 7y agoI'm more than a little curious what the retort to this is. Does anyone dispute this view?
- Waterluvian 7y agoYou could limit it to something like: All radios, processors and sensors must come from consumer IoT devices and be worth no more than a total of $x
- pkolaczk 7y agoI believe it could be theoretically done, but I doubt it would be economically viable. Consumer grade electronics is produced with much lower quality standards and designed for much lower physical endurance than aerospace or military electronics. So while they may come with plenty of compute power, they may not withstand harsh conditions in space and you possibly don't want to risk losing a multi-million dollar rocket due to a fault in a $2 doorbell controller.
- Waterluvian 7y agoFrom my perspective, that's the entire point of a goofy challenge! :) (I should have clarified earlier, I think it should be a completely fun challenge for the maker community)