Nomadness

Updated May 14, 2009:  This new adventure substrate is a huge departure from the machines that have filled the last quarter century of my life, and thus deserves its own web presence.The bulk of my technomadic archives are still over at the sprawling Microship site, and this is the place for new material about the Nomadness project.  The best place to start is a non-technical walkthrough of the boat that includes a few favorite photos.

Not content with already being hopelessly overloaded, I am working on a few other projects in parallel with developing the ship systems.  One of those is a small book called Reaching Escape Velocity... detailing lessons learned from 25 years of spawning gonzo engineering projects with the help of sponsors, volunteers, and media. (This is now in final proofing stages; when it is available on Amazon, that title will become a link.)

I have also opened an online store to provide kits and other goodies related to boat hacking, and one of the first products is a marinized version of the GPS Datalogger that lets one easily generate publishable track maps of an adventure. The store is just now getting populated with a variety of microcontrollers, parts, packaging hardware, nautical gizmos, books, and even some random Nomadic Research Labs surplus.

For the most current boat news, including geeky updates and tales of life aboard, please see the Nomadness blog... it gets a new posting about once a week. 

Fair winds,
Steve