So the CPU is on the daughterboard. Everything that's specific to the CPU type (North/South bridges, etc) would have to go on there as well. Likely memory as well.
Congratulations. They've re-discovered the backplane and single board computer.
The bottom line is that a 750 mile object of 4% the mass of the Moon, colliding at the far side of the Moon (as suggested in this article) would have had a very noticeable effect on the Moon's orbital trajectory around the Earth, providing an eccentric elliptical orbit, make it non-tidally locked, and most importantly would be sending the Moon on a spiral towards us, rather than away from us as we are currently seeing.
If the 750 mile object were in the same orbit as the moon, it would have the same orbital velocity as the moon. With a very small difference in velocity between it and the moon, it wouldn't change the moon's orbit much at all. Since the theory is that the smaller moon would have started in either the L4 or L5 Earth-Moon Legrange points, they would have had the same velocity.
For CompSci, you'll probably be looking at digital signals more often than analog. Consider getting a logic analyzer instead.
I've worked with LeCroy LogicStudio 16. It's a logic analyzer that connects to your PC over USB. It does I2C, SPI, and UART triggering & decoding, and can capture 16 channels at 500 MHz. It costs just under $1000.
They've got the full application available on their website, it'll use a simulated device as a demo. http://www.lecroy.com/logicstudio/
My car has a built-in range check and its computer tells me how far behind I am behind the car in front of me.
...I have currently set the range check to start blinking warningly at 1.5 seconds or less.
What car has these features? Sometimes I check myself by timing 2 seconds, but keeping my eyes fixed on some feature on the road surface or roadside for 2 seconds isn't the safest thing.
...500 times further away from the Sun than the Earth...
An observatory at 500 AU? Really? Considering the two farthest man-made objects, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, are only at 94 and 84 AU, this seems overambitious to the point of completely unrealistic.
A car with yaw control...
I am in favor of cars being controlled by Yaw.
The optimum committee has no members. -- Norman Augustine
