Canute Tide Predictor
Approx construction cost US$38
For over ten years, the author had felt that his power over the waves was also severely limited. Not in some megalomaniac sense, you understand, but in trying to write a computer program that would allow him to predict the state of the tide for any of his favorite coastal laze-abouts.
Could he walk out to that rocky point without having to swim? Could he swim in that broad sweeping bay without having a kilometer walk out across sand?
All too often, and too late, he’d found that the answers were negative! What was needed was a device or computer program that would allow the answers to be immediately displayed. Naturally, it would allow predictions to be accurate within minutes – the mechanism of tide movement was, after all, subject to strict laws of nature and thus readily calculable…
Huh! How naive! But the author's ultimate solution makes for a fascinating read and a highly interesting project.
More details on this construction project can be found in the June 2000 issue of EPE Online, the world's first web-delivered electronics and computing hobbyist magazine.
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