Building a Swarm of Autonomous Ocean Boats
There’s a gritty feel to the Hackerboat project. It doesn’t have slick and polished marketing, people lined up with bags of money to get in on the ground floor, or a flashy name (which I’ll get to in a bit). What it does have is a dedicated team of hackers who are building prototypes to solve some really big challenges. Operating on the ocean is tough on equipment, especially so with electronics. Time and tenacity has carried this team and their project far.
I first met [Pierce Nichols] at the paella dinner that caps Friday of Bay Area Maker Faire. …read more
