[jonathon.94]

....The humor on this site.

Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com

[The_Engine]

Lots of chuckles here...

But QNX powers the Mars rovers spirit and opportunity. I always say that once Rim gets QNX on a phone they should hand out shirts saying "Our OS has been to Mars, how about yours? "

[limh5]

Thanks everyone for the support and well-wishes from the community.

UPDATE: Looking for CrackBerry Nation to help design a badge for the mission. Badges for space missions usually look like the ones here: The Teams | Google Lunar X PRIZE

The designer of the badge that is chosen will have their name honoured on the website forever

Thanks!

[jasonec]

Things are coming together for the PlayBook moon project right now - the rover is currently being assembled at McMaster, and our team of video game programmers @ triOS College are creating the software that will run on the rover and control it remotely.

The main computer on the rover will be an OMAP 4430 Panda board (basically the exact same hardware in the PlayBook), and by the end of the summer we plan on having a rover that we'll drive around on the ground using a custom Wi-Fi connection between a navigation app I created on my BlackBerry and the Panda board. Any BBM messages sent to my BlackBerry will be routed to the Panda board, where it will reply with its coordinates and a cheeky artificial intelligence response (depends on the message you send). For fun, we plan on including a Space Invaders routine that, when invoked, moves the rover side to side with shooting sound effects ;-)

For more details, check out the blog (which will be updated quite frequently in coming days): Blog | Playbook Moon Landing | The first handheld device to boldly go

[Ackehece]

Thanks for the update.
is it going to do serious science as well. it's cool to play around but would be nice to see a serious side as well (ah I see it covered as objective 3).

[Superfly_FR]

Nice earing from this project again !
Maybe you could make it also "Frank Inside" and stream it live ?
[YT]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7XPg-CacMs[/YT]