Update #11: We are ready!
We've been around for almost 2 weeks in Rotterdam at the V2_ now, and we got our space set up, keys for everybody, internet connexion, a fridge for our lunches, a big table to work ect : the conditions to work !
This is Mathew Lippincott from Oregon - now studying in Swtizerland - working on our MEGA TABLE - to do large pattern cutting and large plastic sheet assembly.
We have received our oil booms! Roberto Melendez and Piem Wirtz saying "YAY". May I say "LOL" even ?
And we had an intense week of brain-storming and drawing :
Here, Henrik Rudstrom, Logan Williams, Roberto Melendez and Qiuyang Zhou in the background.
We have divided the team in 3 smaller groups to research shape-shifting hulls :
1. Spine-based hull, moving around a flexible axe.
2. Hollow hull, actuated by it's surface.
3. Pneumatic, entirely actuated by pressure transfers.
That means that at the end of this week, you will see 3 mechanical principle prototypes coming along! Stay tuned :)
And this week, meet the wonderful Roberto Melendez!
Engineer 1 : Roberto Melendez (El Salvador, USA), Mechanical and Ocean Engineering , MIT. roberto@opensailing.net. Roberto, 21, is a student of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering at MIT. A native from El Salvador, he enjoys sailing, biking, windsurfing, fútbol and being outdoors in general. Thanks to Toni Nottebohm for the video.
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Cesar Harada (27) is a designer and researcher. French and Japanese, he moved from Boston to the Gulf of Mexico to develop Protei, an Oil Spill cleaning robot. Cesar is TED Senior Fellow, also the coordinator of the Open_Sailing group which aim is to build the International_Ocean_Station as an Open Hardware project. Cesar was recently project leader at MIT, construction manager of the Mobile technology *iHub_ in Nairobi Kenya. He graduated from the Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art in London, and has background in industrial design, animation film and construction. Cesar loves judo, cycling, swimming and sailing :)
Very Happy to meet the Protei Team ! We wish you all to go in the same direction and always find solutions to your problems. Try, try try, try, try : by all yours owns experiences we will find the best way to do... Je suis très comblée de voir que vous allez mettre le meilleur de vous dans ces recherches et ne jamais avoir peur de travailler et d'essayer de nombreuses fois afin de toujours pouvoir vous améliorer et améliorer tout le système en entier. N'ayez pas peur d'être imaginatif et persévérer. Nous sommes de tout coeur avec vous et sommes très fiers de vous !! Annie Harada
幸運を祈る。私たちはあなたを誇りに思っている. Annie to Tetsuo HARADA