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(excerpt) by Michael ShapiroYahoo! Internet LifeJune, 1998 This piece from Yahoo’s internet lifestyle magazine featured a number of us who were using the Internet while traveling full-time. The story introduced: Here’s my bit… And a flashback in the form of part of the magazine cover… back in the days when there were print publications about…

Chitty Chitty Wonk Wonk - Outside Magazine

This article appeared just as I was settling down into the new Microship lab on Camano Island, Washington… for what I thought would be a 2-year development project. The piece is a reminder of the danger inherent in publicly predicting expedition plans; boat-building has a way of dragging on for decades, and life keeps evolving.…

This was the most substantial published Microship system architecture discussion, and still, decades later, reflects the basic design concepts underlying my machines. Although the hardware implementation is completely different, the model is the same: distribute low-power networked nodes throughout the environment and provide a means for anything to talk to anything (even cases not anticipated…

by Steven K. Roberts Microship Status Report #124 Nomadic Research Labs Camano Island, Washington May 7, 1998 “Nomad is on island” Len Wanger Photo above: the Microship lab on Camano Island, photographed on a visit 23 years later Trench Honeymoon and Building Progress Somehow it seemed fitting — the day after a cozy little wedding…

This delightful Canadian travel and adventure magazine always had interesting destination pieces, and I was hoping to write for them from the seat of the Microship during the “Clueless and Lark” expedition. I’m happy to see that they are still around. This article catches the beginning of the transition from Silicon Valley to the Camano…

One of the more fun speaking gigs with BEHEMOTH was this one… presentations at the two AeroVironment sites (Monrovia and Simi Valley). I already knew the founder, Paul MacCready, through our shared interest in Human Powered Vehicles, and I remember being enchanted by his geek playground. They gave me one of their new Charger electric…

This beautiful piece by Stan Bunger was filmed in Silicon Valley in late 1997, and aired shortly after we moved north to build a lab in the woods of Camano Island. Unlike typical local TV news programs, he took the time to explore the technical aspects of the project, yet framed it with the real…

There was a point in the 10-year Microship project that I think of as the peak of system design, and only two articles really capture it… the one below, and another in the venerable Dr. Dobbs Journal. I wrote both during a 2-month layover in a rented house in Bellingham where we stayed after first…

by Steven K. Roberts Microship Status Report #123 Nomadic Research Labs Camano Island, Washington March 7, 1998 “The large print giveth and the small print taketh away.” Tom Waits As you probably know, the entire Microship development project was shoved forcibly to the back burner a few months ago as our Silicon Valley lease, originally…

In Pursuit of Picasso #5 in the Cyber.kdz series by Bruce Balan In a curious twist, I got to be a fictional character… thanks to Bruce Balan, a long-distance sailor and author. This series of six books, released in the late ’90s, was aimed at young hack-savvy readers and related the adventures of the Internet-connected…

Click and Go – Yahoo

Chitty Chitty Wonk Wonk – Outside Magazine

Designing Technomadic Systems – Dr Dobb’s Journal

Camano Island Microship Lab Construction

Home Is Where You Hang Your “Autonomous Mobile Information and Communication Platform” – Outpost

A Visit with AeroVironment

Microship project on KRON New Media News – video

Ship of Dreams: New Adventures of a Technomad – CQ VHF

A New Microship Lab on Camano Island

Fighting Crime with the Cyber.kdz