Microship Status Reports

Steven K. Roberts UCSD – San Diego Microship Status 2/2/94 Control Network Update First, the Microship Control Network continues to occupy center stage, as far as effort is concerned. We have completely eliminated the noisy RJ-11 phone wiring that I was hoping to get away with and I’ve made a braided cable of three twisted…

By now we were well-established at UCSD, with student teams cranking away on projects and serious work happening in the marine architecture department. We’re about to switch to each Microship Status Report having its own post in these archives, but this is all of the ones posted to interested parties in January ’94. Microship Status…

The project was seriously in gear at UCSD, and this page carries the posts during the last month of 1993. They were growing, taking on a life of their own, and finding more and more subscribers… and after March each will be its own post. Microship Status 12/12/93 In This Issue: Still Alive! General Updates…

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…

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……

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…