When the vessels travel through certain points in the harbour, geopositioning via satellites send signals back to hardware set up by the team and the boats change colour accordingly.
The Pi Foundation has made a short video showing basic hardware set up for the camera module.
HighFive's hardware sets up every conference room for remote meetings with an "instant on" feature, at a fraction of the price of traditional solutions ($800 per room versus ten times that).
It's not quite as fancy – but there's not much that could be done with the current hardware set up. (Psst, Apple – time to add a front facing camera).
Ara is built to be affordable, with the base unit costing around $50. Two big hurdles are still yet to be cleared with Ara, however: price of components and how the software will cope with multiple - and wide-ranging - variations of hardware set ups.
It has also been experimenting with hardware acceleration, setting up a small incubator on an ex-Nokia campus in China back in 2013.
Moreover, their painless hardware set-up process and rather simple programming paradigm attract more researchers to acquire them and implement their time-expensive computations on these platforms.
Evolution of Game Boy The Game Boy was followed in 1996 by the thinner, lighter Game Boy Pocket, which retained the same hardware set-up, but unlike the original, did actually fit in your pocket.
"Bournemouth offers the closest thing that I've seen to a professional working environment, in terms of the software and hardware set-up," says Franklin, who was also an undergraduate external examiner for five years.
The Game Boy was followed in 1996 by the thinner, lighter Game Boy Pocket, which retained the same hardware set-up, but unlike the original, did actually fit in your pocket.
