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The Microtransat Challenge will feature seven robotic craft, without crew, competing in a race across the Atlantic Ocean.
This historic transatlantic race will run between September 29 and October 5, 2008 and start at Viana do Castelo, Portugal. The finishing line lies between the Northern tip of St. Lucia and the Southern tip of Martinique [...]

In a recent blog, I mentioned that I was developing Linux-based open source navigation software for Willow Garage. In the course of doing this, I discovered that CodeWeavers’ CrossOver Linux product allowed Coastal Explorer / Chart Navigator Pro to run in a win2k bottle. That doesn’t mean that NMEA devices work with programs running [...]