Current Microship Volunteers

Karen Adams	Assisted with abrasives engineering on the Microship's first paint job.
Jim Antrim	A multihull design wizard, has been an ongoing resource for marine engineering insights and calculations, helping us convert theory into reality.
Frank Araullo	Set up MacHTTPd and Mac related software, did plenty of problem solving, and maintained the web site at UCSD. He also let us crash at his apartment while we were homeless... er, I mean nomadic.
Bruce Balan	When not writing delightful childrens' books, sails his 46-foot Cross tri Migration. He has become an invaluable source of practical info on boat accommodations and gear selection.
Dave Berkstresser	This amazing mechanical engineering guru is always on call to answer questions about pneumatics, hydraulics, stresses, metallurgy, machining, and anything else involving Real Hardware. He even helped load the trucks to get us out of town...
T. Erik Browne	Of AllPen did Newton development work on the graphic front-end tools before we moved to a browser model for the new boats.
John Bumgarner	Loaned us a fridge, freezer, microwave, toaster, lab bench & chair for the Santa Clara lab. Without him we would have died of starvation! And he was the key to the obtanium lab furniture.
Dan Burdick	A draftsman and recumbent cyclist I've known since the BEHEMOTH era, helped with the 6-bay pressurized control console design for Hogfish.
Chris Burmester	Has worked magic with his Newton programming skills, establishing the fundamental structure of our front end tools as well as the Mac software (Serial Passage) that served as a Newton-FORTH gateway.
Joel Cannon	Of Apple did a Quicktime VR shoot of the entire Santa Clara lab and the ship.
Seth Ceteras	Moved to San Diego to help out -- he designed & built davits to hoist the Fulmar up three stories of the UCSD Engineering building, networked the Macs, loaned us a printer, and was a crucial part of getting many of the early to-do's off the list.
Drew Carlson	Spent a day working with Bob, laying up hull reinforcements around the landing gear pivot holes.
Barbara Chase and David Martin	of Netcetera, unix wizards, did lots of sysadmin on the microship.com web server (which is colocated at Zocalo).
Mike Clark	A key source of information and contacts at Apple for Macintosh and Newton resources.
Mark Coulter	Mark lives on a Piver trimaran on Salt Spring Island, came to Silicon Valley from Canada with Bob Stuart and spent 3 weeks on micro-tri fiberglass fabrication before we moved the project north
Mary Davis	Designing and sewing the Microships' bimini covers.
Steve Dimse	Performed all sorts of APRS wizardry including development of a tracking application on the web.
Randy Devol	(owner of the TriFoiler Blade Runner) put the first of the antennas up -- a little scanner antenna that we use for monitoring, TV, etc. He also helped move the 600 lb mill loaned to the project by Dave Wright and spent a grim day fiberglassing the crossbeam with us.
Bob Donnell KD7NM	Donated a disk drive to beef up the 386 linux box, and rebuilt the system around it.
Otmar Ebenhoech	Electric car guru, gave us much-needed advice and circuit designs for the switch-mode charger circuitry to be used in the solar peak-power tracker.
Bob Ellingson	Our Halted Specialties connection, not to mention many nights of fine dining and Mai Tais.
Paul Elkins	Our tubing man and fellow fancier of tiny boats, cut and faced all the heavy aluminum tubing parts for the landing gear assembly.
Charlie Faddis	Dramatically accelerated my hesitant and methodical power wiring style, spending a weekend stringing 12-2 Romex and terminating it in 4-plex outlet boxes.
Gary and Michael Fariss	Have visited the lab occasionally to install ham antennas and run the lab AppleTalk cables...
Frank Feczko	Donated his old woodstove...
David Fichou	Of DynEd installed the lab phone system donated by AsepCo...
Dr. Java C. Furberger	A Maine Coonish cat, who keeps us reminded of the important things.
Peter and Roberta Fynn	Built an illumination simulator for the initial hydroponic bay and contributed a plant transpiration model for nutrient pump control.
Lonnie Gamble	Built workstands for both of the micro-trimarans... key fixtures that ended up caked with epoxy by the time it was all over. He also built the woodshed grafted onto the side of the lab building while his friends Barbara and Shariel put up drywall in my office.
Bdale Garbee KGOB	Installed linux in the 386 box and is instrumental in the Debian implementation in the Octagon PC500 board.
Mike Gittelsohn	Drove one of the rental trucks on the nightmarish epic haul from Silicon Valley to Bellingham, and spent a bloody and exhausting day cramming the entire lab into storage.
Ken Glaeser	Visited for 2 weeks from Wisconsin, built the underwater camera and the servo-retracting shutter for the video turret, and installed the 24-V thruster battery bank under the cockpit.  In 2003, built J-pole antenna for Bubba and helped with power management.
Steve Goshorn	A machinist here on Camano Island, fabricated all the aluminum parts for the supremely adjustable recumbent seat.
Kevin Hardy	Loadmaster extraordinaire, packed the U-haul for the epic journey from San Diego to the lab in Santa Clara.
Bob Hansen	Electrician, took the pain out of the breaker-box work at both ends of our 750 power cable feeding the lab.
Kevin Hardy	Of Scripps Institution of Oceanography donated waterproof connectors for the solar arrays.
David Harris	(Zonker) distinguished himself with heroic cabling on BEHEMOTH; on the ship, he's helping out with APRS node design.
Jeremy Heath	One of our USCD students who's now in industry, stopped by the lab now and then to assist as needed. At UCSD, he worked on power control.
Dewayne Hendricks	Of Warp Speed Imagineering is our wireless networking guru, and has been a valuable resource of contacts in both industry and the public sector. He also helped move, and even passed along his old Macintosh PowerBook.
Trevor Henthorn	Went beyond sys admin duties at UCSD. He kept the web site going while we worked on getting a new ISP. He also wrote a C program that indexes the Microship Status Reports and the Nomadness Notes on this server.
Cy Hernandez	Has loaned us his Fulmar-19 trimaran (the same one Faun used on our grand adventure a few years back) to provide all-important Time On Water as well as a photo/video platform for Microship test sails.
Matthew Hixson	Donated a dual Pentium for Microship lab linux development, and is an ongoing resource of system wizardry.
Ron Hodges	Of Stuart & Sons Electrical Contractors; spent an afternoon rewiring the power distribution in the lab, reducing our dependence on daisy-chained outlet strips.
Ted Kaehler	Made our key introductions at Apple, picked out our lab space (the smallest real estate deal ever for Apple!), and he's also a HyperCard wizard...
Daniel Kottke	Built the PIC-based LED status monitor matrix for BEHEMOTH, which has been reassigned to the Microship hub.
Keith Koppelman	Of Cosmic Hippo fame helped build the molds for the "aka nests" that interface Fulmar crossbeams to the canoe decks.
Fred Laun	Of American Action Security Systems, helped arrange donation of the Napco hardware and did a lot of the installation work.
Mike Leneman	Of Multihull Marine... not technically a volunteer since he sold me the hull and rig for Hogfish, but he's an ongoing source of advice on nautical design...
Andrew Letton	Fabricated the first set of pedals for the Microship drive unit, also cut the mast step tubing, and helped load the trucks.
Fillippo Loddo	Began helping at UCSD. After he graduated, our paths crossed again and he's helped extract points off the hull.
Tony Loro	Gave us his old AST Server 486 for lab linux server development.
Joyce Lukaczer	Joyce "arrow girl" Lukaczer came up with the Nomadic Research Labs look
John Marples	Provided a number of valuable marine architecture reality checks during a series of consultation phone calls that clarified daggerboard and rudder geometry, dihedral specification, and weight distribution.
Gino Morrelli	Gave advice, taught us about multihull design, and gave pointers to marine wizards to help us rig the boat.
Jerry Moa	Helped with a day of schlepping equipment out of storage and into the lab.
Mark Moorcroft	Donated and installed his robust Wilton vise, helped with housekeeping on the Microship server, assisted with SPI and clock interfacing, and wanders by now and then to help in various ways around the lab. He helped load the trucks for the move north.
Vinnie Moscaritolo	Has been a great resource for Macintosh system and network consulting.
Bill Muench	Extensive consultation on the FORTH nodes and multitasker.
Rich Muttkowski	Did loads of difficult jobs associated with the lab building... hanging a door, installing a heater, trenching for drainage, installing plumbing...
Mike Nestor	Camano Island Realty... he not only sold us the house and land, but has remained a constant help in all sorts of areas. He helped with the move from storage, loans us tools and other "homeowner stuff," and did a lot to make us welcome in this amazing island community.
Sandy Nicol	Helped with database entry and the first Microship party food planning. She also helped move the mill!
Tim Nolan	Became our power guru by designing the PWM thruster controller, H-bridge steering motor controller, and solar peak-power tracking system. He has visited the lab twice from Wisconsin on the Geek's Vacation program, and if Nomadic Research Labs was a Real(TM)Company I'd hire him in an instant.
Tom Nute	Our first real "yachtie" contact, and from the earliest days at UCSD was instrumental in making contacts in the San Diego nautical community.
Charlie Nystrom	Spent a day working with Bob, laying up hull reinforcements around the landing gear pivot holes.
Suzy O'Keefe KE6ZNX	Helped construct the first cardboard mockup of the micro-trimarans to aid in visualization.
Steve Orr	Donated his endlessly enchanting Life/Time clock, constantly reminding us of the passage of time in it's quirky and entertaining way.
Paul Picot	Consultation on enclosure pressure-management system, responsible for protecting all the electronics from the corrosive environment at sea.
Steve Prior	Created a beautiful staircase while on a geek's vacation from the east coast. It's extremely sturdy and is the perfect work platform.
Jim Rees N7AHZ	Passing through from Michigan, performed initial assembly of the NMEA-RS232 interface board.
Mark Reynolds	Sail guru!
Edward Roberts	My father, waved the magic financial wand that made the purchase of a solar house and 6 acres on Camano Island feasible. Without this lab, we'd be far, far behind our current level of Microship completion.
Steve Sergeant	Designed the Auxbar board, which has migrated all the way from BEHEMOTH to the current micro-trimarans.
Mike Setzer	And his lovely partner, Mary, not only helped with a brutal day of moving into the new lab, but have also been a valuable resource of macho tools, construction supplies, and advice.
Frank Sharp	Donated his old Mariner roller-furler -- a unique design that can be coiled up when the mast is lowered.
Bobbi Smith	Picked up the Libra double kayaks in Sidney, BC, and drove them down to San Diego.
John Studarus	Had a lot to do with setting up the original Nomadic Research Labs gopher and web servers... in 1983, one of the very first websites.
Bob Stuart	In addition to donating the pedal drive units and helping us move, has performed fiberglass wizardry on just about every part of the first of our two Microships... including landing gear fabrication. (If you want a guru-level composites guy with both land and water HPV experience, this is who you should look up.) He's also giving Tasha ongoing advice as she works on the second boatlet...
Joe Tyner	Donated his company's old phone system, which has made life in this huge lab and distant house manageable. He also tossed in an old 386 box, which came up as our first-ever linux development machine.
Bill Vodall WA7NWP	Fired up our first APRS station, strung an HF antenna, and is helping with linux and Perl learning curves.
Robb Walker	Of Nelson-Marek Yacht Design... our first marine architecture consultant. He offered his time at UCSD and gave us and the students our first painful yacht design learning curves.
Len Wanger	Created the Microship 1.0 CAD visualizations at SDSC. Many brainstorming sessions happened over pina coladas & margaritas.
Brian Willoughby	One of our linux wizards; wrote ushipd to interface the web server with the on-board control network.
Dave Wright	Dave continues to be an indispensable resource of electronic, power, interfacing, and general nautical cleverness.