This was filmed during a rather overwhelming part of the project… I was in a big windowless building in Silicon Valley, my relationship of 2.5 years was ending, and we were definitely behind schedule. Computer Chronicles came by on December 18, 1996, and captured a snapshot of that phase… including some nice shots of the…

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This is one of very few published photos of Hogfish, the 30-foot folding trimaran that was built before the Corsair F-27 by John Walton (yes, THAT John Walton) and Mike Michie. I bought it for a song in Los Angeles, trailered it to my Apple-sponsored lab in Silicon Valley, and built the Microship project around…

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This was a tidy little snippet in the “Closers” section at the end of this trade journal aimed at value-added resellers and solution providers. This page was for fun items, and included speculation about Apple’s chances, as well as some witticisms from Larry Ellison regarding Internet terminals vs PCs (“At my home we have a…

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This piece was filmed about halfway through my first year in the Silicon Valley Microship lab sponsored by Apple, and I was working with my partner of the epoch, Faun Skyles. The project substrate was a 30-foot folding trimaran that we picked up in Southern California after fiddling for a couple of years with kayak-based…

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Cruising World has always been one of my favorite armchair-sailing publications, and it was an honor to find my way into its pages early in the Microship project. This was during the brief period in which the substrate was Hogfish, a one-off folding trimaran built by John Walton and Mike Michie, predating the establishment of…

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Technomad of the High Seas - Popular Mechanics

This is just a short and almost content-free snippet, but I include it in the archive since it carries a rare photo of my Fulmar-19 trimaran… an early choice of substrate before a crazy adventure around the Salish Sea demonstrated that we needed something more robust and flexible. Popular Mechanics November, 1995 SAN DIEGO, CA…

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by Keith Manring Corvallis Gazette-TimesĀ August 5, 1995 Part spaceship, part sail boat, the self-sustaining 30-foot trimaran of Steve Roberts’ dreams is looking for a home at Oregon State University. Solar-powered. Internet link via satellite. Hydroponic garden. Computerized maintenance and security systems. Electronic backpacks to control the craft by remote through a Macintosh laptop. But right…

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Beyond Mobility

I’ve always liked this article – it’s well-written and takes the long view. Penned by Dan Rosenbaum from the perspective of the nascent personal mobility industry, it catches me during the very early years of the Microship project… and he’s still at it, writing about new media as it continues to unfold. by Daniel J.…

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Although most of the graphics are stock photos, I like this article… Joe Dysart takes a long view, nicely blending the human side with the tech. This was written during my 2 years in San Diego, working with UCSD engineering students on the Microship, and the story has a nice sense of inhalation about the…

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Fulmar 19 in UCSD Microship lab

For 2 years, I had a lab in the engineering building at University of California San Diego, where, as “adjunct faculty,” I ran a projects class for seniors in electrical & control engineering. This article appeared during the first year there, when the nautical substrate was a Fulmar-19 trimaran, and we were building a network…

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