Open Hardware for the Ocean. The Drone That Will Sail Itself Around the World. An Orange Pixel flickers on the horizon, sandwiched between the inky azure of the mid-Pacific and the robin’s-egg pale of the Hawaiian sky.
Richard Jenkins is the first to see it—a sailing robot, which has been blowing our way for a month. We’re in a small motorboat 7 miles out at sea, just north of Oahu’s windward shore. Dylan Owens gets the next good glimpse. “I see the wing,” he exclaims, “and the tail!” Jenkins and Owens are the engineering duo behind Saildrone, which in the words of their website is “a wind-powered autonomous surface vehicle.” The journey has included a storm with gale-force winds followed by two weeks of doldrums. As the vessel sails into sight, I see that it’s a streamliner—a narrow hull stabilized by two outriggers, one on each side. The Honey Badger is more than a sailboat and more than a robot, although it’s both of those things. Autonomous sailing craft could be used to gather information on the vast, untraveled reaches of the world’s oceans . 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Protéi, le bateau open-source pour nettoyer les océans. Convaincu qu’en s’inspirant de la nature, la technologie doit être au service de l’environnement en réparant les désastres causés par les humains, César Harada est à l’origine d’un projet ambitieux : la conception d’un drone marin innovant, permettant notamment l’écrémage du pétrole déversé par les marées noires.
Fils d’un père japonais et d’une mère française, César Harada est à la croisée de courants émergents : open-source, open hardware, recherche collaborative, biomimétisme et écologie. Il les emploie pour mettre en action sa conviction que « les courants marins, le vent et les autres phénomènes naturels peuvent fournir des solutions uniques et novatrices aux pires catastrophes de l’humanité, comme les déversements de pétrole et les fuites radioactives ». Il y a quelques années, César Harada s’est retrouvé coincé dans un laboratoire du MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), attelé à la construction d’un drone de nettoyage de marées noires. Carte en temps réel des navires - AIS - trafic maritime et positions. DIY Drones.
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World's first" smartphone-controlled SmartPlane takes off. By Darren Quick November 25, 2013 Parrot's AR Drone quadcopter has been strutting its smartphone-controlled stuff for a few years now, but fixed wing remote controlled aircraft have been a little thinner on the ground – and in the air.
TobyRich, a German company specializing in smartphone-controlled gadgets, has now launched its SmartPlane, which it calls "the first smartphone-controlled airplane in the world. " Here is a close-up of the lightweight plane: Protei Handbook - 2011 09 07 by Cesar Harada.