Gender

Male

Location

Rochester, NY

About Me:

I am adjunct faculty at Monroe Community College and the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, NY. In the 1990's, before I had children, I got involved in scratchbuilding RC models of historic schooners and other 19th century watercraft. Although my education is in creative writing, I have been writing about science and technology in both academia and as a journalist for about ten years. Most recently I have begun to get involved in the open source community and have been profoundly impressed with the creative might of these social/informational networks and communities. Continued below. : )

Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

My current fantasy is to create an open source community to generate hardware and software designs for solar-powered, semi-autonomous blimps or zeppelins which could be used as inexpensive platforms for remote tele-presence and data-collection in regions of the Earth that are remote and difficult to access. Although I have been thinking along these lines for a long time, it is only recently that I realized that the technology and means might be already be available.

Hometown:

Rochester, NY