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  • Damon McMillan October 3, 2015 at 10:31pm

    Just wanted to invite you all to see the latest progress on Seacharger.  It's back in the water with new batteries, Renogy solar panels, custom waterproof electrical connectors, and some other good stuff:

    http://www.seacharger.com/build-blog

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    SeaCharger build blog: see the latest progress on the project
    Continually updated blog including description and pictures of build progress. Shows the hull construction, thruster design, solar panel and battery…
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      Grant Morphett > Damon McMillan October 6, 2015 at 6:23pm

      Its looking great Damon - keep the updates coming!

      Thanks, Grant.

  • Víctor Mayoral June 25, 2015 at 12:24am

    Fantastic project Damon. Congratulations!

    I'd like to support your work as well. Would you accept an Erle-Brain?.

    • Damon McMillan > Víctor Mayoral June 29, 2015 at 8:30am

      Hi Victor,

      Thank you for your offer!  Let us take a little more time to look into it (we've mainly been focusing on the propulsion system lately).  It looks like a great product.


      Damon

    • Darius Jack > Víctor Mayoral June 26, 2015 at 2:24pm

      Hi Victor,

      could you list 29 sensors on board of your excellent Erle-Brain,

      by model type, technical specification, data format, clock

      What data can be live accessed via WiFi or 3G modem, if installed ?

      I plan to build wireless sensor probe,  since number of sensors coming with tablets on board is limited to just few.

      I am interested to get live data feed from  gyroscope, accelerometer, uTesla sensor, magnetometer ... GPS (geolocated)

      Let me know your opinion and suggestions.

      Congratulations on success of your excellent Erle-Brain.

      darius

      manta103g@gmail.com

    • Víctor Mayoral > Darius Jack June 27, 2015 at 1:50am

      Hi Darius,

      Thanks for your words. Tech specs about Erle-Brain are listed on the product page including the sensors. It's a full featured Linux computer thereby you can easily connect WiFi or 3G dongles as desired. Traditional GPS modules are also supported through the 2 UART ports and you can connect many more sensors using the I/O functions available.

      Feel free to contact us if you've got any further questions.

      Regards,

    • Darius Jack > Víctor Mayoral June 27, 2015 at 1:02pm

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      Processing Unit

      SEN-11234 ROHS In  

      Description: The MPU-6000 is a serious little piece of motion processing tech! By combining a MEMS 3-axis gyroscope and a 3-axis accelerometer on the same silicon die together with an onboard Digital Motion Processor™ (DMP™) from your webpage:

      (C&P)

      ... 3 accelerometers, 3 gyroscopes and 1 temperature sensor

      MPU9250: 3 accelerometers , 3 magnetometers, 3 gyroscopes and 1 temperature sensor

      LSM9DS0: 3 accelerometers , 3 magnetometers, 3 gyroscopes and 1 temperature sensor

      MS5611-01BA: 1 digital pressure sensor (barometer) and 1 temperature sensor

      Why did you install 3 x 3-axis accelerometers, 3 x magnetometers and 3 x 3-axis gyroscopes ?

  • Darius Jack June 24, 2015 at 5:04pm

    Floating Sensor Network Project

     like your project and can support it

    As NG expert on renewable energy and climate change (UNFCCC) I can get all the necessary data from NOAA and NASA to calculate energy required to defeat the energy of ocean currents for any given geolocation.

    That way I can calculate energy balance to make this project success.

    In the past I have joined a numer of alike solar energy-based global projects ( Solar Impulse,   Iceberg Project (towing icebergs from the South Pole to Africa to acquire fresh water., powered by the solar panels (PV) system put on top of the iceberg).

    So this project is more attracted to physics of fluids, oceanography, study of the ocean currents, study of insolation level, weather reports, jet stream analysis than floating the real boat.

    You are free to join my Global Solar Consortium ( tens of renewable energy harvesting r&d projects).

    I can offer you world's best solar cells / solar panels ( semi-flexible, highest efficiency).

    More data on sea currents I can get tracking the free-floating GPS-enabled probes

    (Free Floating GPS Sensors Network )

    Since insolation levels for any given geolocation are known to me, I am afraid we should trace Mini-Max route (maximum solar energy received, minimum energy lost).

    Ok, it's enough for today.

    darius

    manta103g@gmail.com

  • Rustom Jehangir June 24, 2015 at 4:23pm

    Nice! We worked on a similar project a while ago but haven't had a chance to finish. I like how much solar panel you have. That's great.

    http://hackaday.io/project/1677-SolarSurfer

    -Rusty

    • Damon McMillan > Rustom Jehangir June 24, 2015 at 9:53pm

      Hi Rusty,

      I've looked at your website before, as well as Blue Robotics.  Great stuff!  Are you still working on SolarSurfer or has life gotten in the way too much?  I assume trying to get the thrusters shipped has been consuming your time.  Anyway, good luck with all.

      Damon

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