Steve, Author at Nomadic Research Labs

An early attempt to create a community of digital nomads, written during the first year of the Microship project. This was posted to my Technomads listserve and generated considerable discussion. (I am indebted to the DiscMaster server at the Internet Archive for unearthing this ancient document.) by Steven K. Roberts Nomadic Research Labs July 1,…

This is one of my favorite videos from my 30 years of building technomadic machines… it came at a heady, exciting moment when the new “world wide web” was hitting public consciousness. I had a lab at UCSD at the time, working with teams of engineering students on the Microship system, and this delightful Australian…

by Steven K. Roberts UCSD – San Diego May 12, 1994 (including video) I spent this past weekend in Seattle, sailing a couple of Fulmar-19s around Puget Sound (about 25 miles on Sunday, ranging from reaching at 11+ knots to pedaling about 4 miles in dead calm), starting at Shilshole Marina and making two trips…

This fun 26-minute video captures my presentation of the bike on stage at a annual Novell meeting… and it includes some favorite bits. In 1994, the Microship project was in full swing at UCSD, and I would periodically take off with my partner in the mothership to do keynotes and other gigs. I am so…

Microship Status Report #74 by Steven K. Roberts San Diego, California April 29, 1994 As the time between updates increases, the amount of catch-up obviously increases, complicating the task of doing an update and inducing further procrastination. Clearly, the obvious solution is continuous, real-time broadcast of every moment of my life, thus eliminating the troublesome accumulation…

by Steven K. Robertsat UCSDApril 2, 1994 Kayak Damage! It’s been a hell of a week. My new manager de-materialized before she fully materialized, someone who needs to be severely spanked scratched the face of my new Sharp active-matrix color LCD, and our neighbor in Seaweed Canyon pushed over a giant storage shelving unit in…

As the project grew more complex, the little “daily updates” to the team became longer and more polished. This is the last of the month-long collections; going forward each will be its own archive post. Here, as we near the end of the first quarter’s student projects, we are beginning to re-think the entire Microship…

I barely remember this one, though as always it was a real hoot to swap puns with Saint $ilicon and meet the endless flow of eager attendees who visited my booth to see the bike. At this point, I was immersed in the Microship project with teams of students at UCSD, and I recall taking…

Steven K. Roberts UCSD – San Diego Microship Status 2/2/94 Control Network Update First, the Microship Control Network continues to occupy center stage, as far as effort is concerned. We have completely eliminated the noisy RJ-11 phone wiring that I was hoping to get away with and I’ve made a braided cable of three twisted…

This article came out while I was starting to work with groups of engineering students at the University of California, San Diego… I landed there as adjunct faculty, and taught a projects class in exchange for lab space and eager humans. I think some of the “old guard” was wondering what a non-academic bozo was…

Posts by Steve

Virtual Technomadic Flotilla

Big Byte – Technomad and the Internet – Australian video

The Fulmar on Order

BEHEMOTH Talk at Novell Event

Choosing the Fulmar

Microship – Kayak Damage and Downsizing

Microship Updates – March 1994

BEHEMOTH at Los Angeles Computer Fair

Microship Updates – February 1994

Computer ace at sea with Internet – San Diego Union-Tribune