Recreate the Apollo Guidance Computer

That's a fantastic job, both in terms of authentic looks (with some license for materials availability) as well as the very neat job on the guts (though the powerbank looks a bit like an afterthought).

I just put together a robot based on the Pi and it mindblowing how powerful these little things are. Initially I had it all running on a 'big' Raspberry Pi 5 but with a little bit of action by mr. Shoehorn it works just as well on the Pi Zero 2! A full Unix computer for $20 with GPIO, PWM, serial, i2c, USB, Camera and wifi.

Even a modern MCU is vastly more powerful than the OG Apollo computer, why use Full Blow SBC ?

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.

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...

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