Steve, Author at Nomadic Research Labs

During one of my visits to the home of the Wayne Green empire in Peterborough, New Hampshire, I spent time at Byte and 73 Magazine. This was a small photo/caption in the local paper. A longer story about my visit is in Radio Fun and the photo below is by my host, Bill Brown. Photos by…

A visit with dear friends in Jamesville, New York, led to a flurry of media coverage including this piece from Syracuse and the one below from Ithaca. I had just begun a media/speaking tour with BEHEMOTH in a mobile lab, and had just finished filming a Phil Donahue episode in New York City. I was…

This is an Associated Press story, yet I believe its distribution was regional to central New York… the local angle is my recent stop in Jamesville (near Syracuse, just down Interstate 81 from Waterwown). I stayed a few days there with my old friend Jean Polly and her family, and was on one of my…

During the busy 2-year epoch that lay between the final BEHEMOTH ride and the start of the Microship project, I pretty much devoted my time to an open-ended media and speaking tour via the first of my mobile labs… this one based on a 20-foot Wells-Cargo trailer hauled behind a Ford diesel pickup truck. One…

Bikelab Notes #17 June 5, 1992 by Steven K. Roberts IN THIS ISSUE: Phil Donahue Show Road Stories Sensory Input Capacitors Hints of Aquatic Nomadness “If it needs to be stronger, we make it bigger. If that makes it ugly, we chrome it.”— Harley-Davidson engineer, speaking anonymouslyduring discussion of structural engineering and materials science. Well, well. The…

1992 was a year of zipping around the US in the mothership (a truck/trailer rig with mobile lab/office and a deployment system for BEHEMOTH), visiting companies and schmoozing for future lab space. This one was particularly fun, enabled by a Xerox engineer who had been on my mailing list for ages… and of course they…

The BEHEMOTH project spanned 3.5 years, about two of which were in prime facilities donated by Sun Microsystems. During that time I lived in Building 4, immersed full-time in the project… aided by an astounding volunteer crew of engineers and fellow geeks from all over Silicon Valley. The relationship with my host company was interesting;…

This is the echo of an interesting visit with friends during the crazy-intense BEHEMOTH media tour of 1992… York Computes into Nomad’s Bike Tour by Peter Krouse York Daily Record May 28, 1992 Steve Roberts didn’t care for classroom studies while growing up in Louisville, Ky. But he loved science fair projects — like the acoustic…

This was a delightful interview, and I wish I had taken a photo of Noah sitting on BEHEMOTH, holding a tape recorder and chatting with me. I had come to Washington DC to exhibit at Interop Spring (photo with Vint Cerf), and somehow ended up visiting NPR. Noah was so relaxed that my own nervousness…

There was quite a flurry of media coverage about BEHEMOTH in 1992. This short piece sounds like the name of a sandwich and is very lightweight, but I was delighted to have my one appearance in People be in the special issue about Johnny Carson: People Magazine May 25, 1992 Reno, Nevada Photo by John…

Posts by Steve

BEHEMOTH in Peterborough NH

High-tech Nomad Follows His Heart

Bike Puts Hi-Tech on Road – Watertown Daily Times

Computerized bike has curiosity of Japan – Syracuse Herald American

Phil Donahue Show, Road Stories, & Aquatic Teaser

Bicyclist takes it all on the road – Rochester Democrat and Chronicle

On the Road Again

BEHEMOTH visits York

BEHEMOTH on NPR All Things Considered with Noah Adams

Rebel on a Roll – People