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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…

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…

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…

This local newspaper article was published in the La Jolla Light during the early days of the Microship project being hosted at UCSD, with a team of engineering students assisting. by Kate Deely La Jolla Light February 3, 1994 UCSD is Steve Roberts’ idea of intellectual excitement and perfect atmosphere wrapped in one, so he…

Once I was committed to the Microship project, the big challenge was finding lab space. After much exploration, I landed at the San Diego campus of the University of California… with an “adjunct faculty” gig to teach a projects class in exchange for lab space and student help. This little article in the faculty/staff newspaper…

I landed at UCSD to build the Microship in the fall quarter of 1993, and by early ’94 there was a little flurry of media coverage. This is from the campus newspaper. A 15-minute video of engineering student discussion from about this time is embedded in the story. by Dan Krauss UCSD Guardian January 13, 1994 INVENTION:…

The BEHEMOTH project was supported by a wonderful group of sponsors, providing all sorts of gizmology. The types of relationships varied widely, and I discuss this quite a bit in my Reaching Escape Velocity book. Some companies included my adventure in their publications, and one was MiLAN… which provided a Micro•Mau AUI Ethernet transceiver that…

This article appeared near the beginning of the Microship project, a few months after setting up the initial lab at UCSD. I had my first few students, working on the project for credit, and was at the time convinced that we would build a custom center hull with deployable double kayaks as outriggers. That concept…

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…

Media – Microship

For biking nomad, home was the Internet – San Diego Union-Tribune

Big Byte – Technomad and the Internet – Australian video

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

Roving Computer to Sailing Microship

Microship project arrives on campus – UCSD Times

Professor Floats Idea for New Workstation

MiLAN Ethernet Transceiver Sponsorship

Mobile Computer Guru Continues Work on High-Tech Sailboat

Down to the Sea in a Digital Canoe – UCSD

BEHEMOTH to Microship: Computer Nomadicism