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So, the topic came up in the FFZ Raspberry Pi thread about my R/C Warships hobby (specifically, using a Raspberry Pi to control the ship), so rather than pollute that thread, I'm creating one here by request. Sometime in the late 90s I got into R/C Warship Combat, specifically Big Gun Model Warship Combat (as opposed to the "Fast Gun Model Warship Combat" at the same scale but with very different rules). Basic premise is this: We build and fight 1/144th scale model warships of any ship at least laid down between 1 Jan 1905 and 1 Jan 1946. This allows us to build Predreadnoughts, Dreadnoughts, SuperDreadnoughts, the epic WWII Battlewagons (Yamato, Iowa, H39) and any/everything else as far down as we can possibly build (PT boats while legal under the rules are basically unbuildable, and Submarines are extraordinarily expensive and largely ineffective). The focus is the big battleships. Guns are CO2 powered (no pyrotechnics) and fire anything between BBs up to 1/4" ball bearings - depending upon the caliber of the gun carried on the ship. The Balsa skin is anywhere from 1/16" up to 1/8" depending upon the armor of the original ship (unarmored is 1/16"). Pumping capacity was based on displacement, etc. The group I was with was then known as the Blacksburg Battle Group, based out of Blacksburg, Virginia. Mostly Engineering students, but the co-founder of the club with me was actually a Comp Sci guy. We did have a few History majors, but the focus was mostly technical. The Co-Founder had purchased a used German Battleship Gneisenau https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_battleship_Gneisenauwhich I helped him sail, and got me hooked. My roomate and I decided to go in together on an Iowa class (Specifically USS Missouri) which I still have in my garage (though it has not sailed in years). Meanwhile the co-founder scratch-built his HMS Lion. As the club grew, and some of us moved away from Blacksburg in our post-college years, we became the Mid Atlantic Battle Group. In recent years, my co-founder has had a couple of kids under the age of 4, and I've been too busy, and the group has largely gone idle. Now that I own my own place, and am not spending vast lengths of time sitting on public transit to/from work I am probably going to try to get things moving again. nabqrules was one of my roommates late in college, and a little after, and he built a Bismarck, and was actually active for a little bit longer after I went into the Army in 2003. We both have some pics to share, and will be happy to answer questions, etc. further along. They really do shoot each other: They really do sink: But we patch and go for revenge: My CV6 CAD Project http://www.tank-net.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=39829is, ultimately, intended to come up with a proper model that will work within these rules and be able to sail with this club. More pictures and discussion to follow.