Robotic Submarine Running Debian Wins International Competition (debian-news.net)

"Those kind of software projects are knocked up on every university CS course every day - I've done them myself - but it's translating them to a real-world system that doesn't involve putting a full PC inside a sub that's the interesting part."

Err, no. That's the tedious, not-very-interesting part, just putting together brilliant parts to make a workable product.