Steve, Author at Nomadic Research Labs

As the 1993-94 school year got underway, the Microship project at last had a home… in the engineering building at UCSD. In exchange for teaching a projects class around the boat as unpaid adjunct faculty, I had a lab and teams of students. This was perfect, and was the beginning of a 2-year epoch. Perspectives…

The Microship project had just landed at UCSD, hosted by the Electronics and Control Engineering department. This little piece in the local San Diego computer weekly was part of a flurry of publicity that happened once I got the lab set up and had begun working with student projects, something that continued for almost 2…

In these early months of the project, updates to the team were frequent. Until they settle down and become more polished in early 1994, we are presenting theme here in month-long batches. Microship Status – 11/1/93 ! — R.s.v.p. — ! IF you are here at UCSD, please send me a quick note right away…

The Nomadness Notes #24 by Steven K. RobertsSan Diego, CaliforniaNovember 24, 1993 (Nomadness trivia: Hey, issue #24 is actually Chapter #127 if you count the Computing Across America and Miles With Maggie series. Sounds like I’ve been busier that way… actually averages one a month since I started in 1983!) Skankin’ Pickle A university is probably…

Microship Status 10/01/93 There is a waterproof full-travel keyboard in the world! The company is Paravant, which makes laptops for military and rugged field use, and they’re talking about it now to see if they want to release a keyboard only for this project. I promised them publicity and any data on interfacing and application……

by Steven K. Roberts to UCSD Microship Student Project Participants October 13, 1993 In 1993, I landed at UCSD as adjunct faculty for the first two years of the Microship project… and this detailed “project catalog” was written to attract students to our development team. It was structured as a projects course (ECE-190B), and I…

Things were moving quickly, with setting up the new UCSD Lab and getting to know students arriving for Fall Quarter. As with the past July and August, we are keeping the archives tidier by grouping these frequent early posts into mong-long collections. Video from this period is in the archives, and will be embedded in…

Steven Roberts Nomadic Research Labs Wednesday, 8:30-9:20 AM Steven Roberts, self-proclaimed “High Tech Nomad,” will revisit his travels into DataSpace. Roberts has traversed the U.S. on his computerized bicycle and, through the marvel of mobile computing, has been able to stay in touch with the world from the seat of his bike. Roberts has done…

At this point, we are only a month or so into the Microship project at UCSD… still putting out “newsletters” as email with my team in the BCC field, the more evolved Status Reports still a few months away. Since there are so many of these, I’m combining them into groups by month. The August…

This was the beginning of a series of posts to a mailing list of folks interested in participating in the Microship project, which was just in the process of landing at UCSD in anticipation of providing context for student projects in the 93-94 school year. I was still scrambling to find space on campus, and…

Posts by Steve

Down to the Sea in a Digital Canoe – UCSD

BEHEMOTH to Microship: Computer Nomadicism

Microship Updates – November 1993

Microship settles into UCSD

Microship Updates – October 1993

The Microship Project Catalog – USCD

Microship Updates – September 1993

Tales from Dataspace – Mobile World 1993

Microship Updates – August 1993

New Microship Status list