Recreate the Apollo Guidance Computer

It was a lot of up-front work, and BIG DESIGN UP FRONT allowed the thing to succeed in production.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vV1hIcqcMQ3VEIFeb8Bg6zwE...

I'm always amazed at how you could fly to the Moon with such basic controls. The Apollo capsule controls compared to the Dragon controls really feels like the difference between a Wright Flyer and a modern glass cockpit airplane.

Fascinating. Is there a read somewhere on the control and thruster algorithms?

I have no doubt a pi can run them now

Reminded me of one of my favorite Applied Science videos where he makes an electroluminescent DSKY display: https://youtu.be/Z2o_Sp2-aBo