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System Documentation

As the Microship grows more and more complete, we are publishing the technical details in three separate forms....

  • Status Report postings to the nomadness listserv, capturing ongoing developments with reasonable timeliness and accuracy but definitely not to be taken as final documents. Many times, we've found the confident pronouncements of one issue to be absolutely wrong a few months later... but still, if you want to stay current with the project, you can subscribe here.
  • Hardcopy technical monographs and articles. A few exist already; we crank 'em out when we feel motivated. But the big one is the forthcoming Inside Microship book, far and away the most ambitious publishing project of my life. Don't send money yet... this will remain vaporware for quite a while, but will ultimately contain the full system design from hydraulics and structure to software and networking, along with schematics, mechanical drawings, component sources, listings, and more. Availability will be announced here and on the nomadness mailing list.
  • Browsable documents right here, beginning with a system architecture image map in which all objects are clickable to reveal explanation and other details. If you want to see what this crazy technomadic substrate is all about, you've come to the right place... and over time, we'll drop in other system details as they become available.

Design Documents

  1. Microshipnet Block Diagram with clickable objects NOTE: this drawing is getting a little stale.
  2. A collection of articles covering a wide range of Microship components and other technical topics.

Interested in volunteering to help design and build some part of the Microship?

Click here for info on available projects and tasks!