It is really only a thing because smartphone OS vendor make it difficult for people to mount filesystem over the network.
If you could ssh/sftp mount from android or iOS easily, your favorite smartphone audio player would just play those files from a remount mount without any need of a streaming server.
On the transponders off point, I imagine soon we will have enough satellites such that we can map every object on the surface of the earth (specially something as large as a boat).
The soviets did exactly that so they can attack large US convoys with long-range Anti-Ship Missiles
They had to use a fission reactor onboard those satellites to power the radar array
It consisted of 2 satellite types. US-A (active) and US-P (passive). US-A used radar and US-P used passive antennas so they can "see" signals from ships.
The usual issue with satellites is they'll see the whole surface of the earth _eventually_, but it takes some time before they're back over the same spot, so tracking moving objects isn't really what they are best at.
If I have to choose, I'd rather line the pockets of the gay man who believes in people's rights and whose only ambition is to get me to buy into his ecosystem of well engineered but overpriced hardware,
instead of the man who just bought himself a President so that he can direct government spending towards his businesses and away from his competitors while disowning his own child for their sexuality, and whose ambition is to rule the planet.
Ten years ago I installed one cam for Surfline and at that time it's was an off-the-shelf but expensive outdoor camera (stock firmware) connected to a locally-based broadband.
cool project! I'm currently (as a part of learning) importing and playing around with quadruped in simulation. Mostly for the purpose of training RL agents and do sim2real on my little quadruped I got.
If you end up generating Meshes & URDF or SDF file along the way it would be cool to try using it in simulators!
