Nov 27, 2009 - The store is working well, and in addition to
random inventory from our lab, we have become dealers for Sparkfun
Electronics (my favorite toy store!). We also carry a couple of
my books, the most currently relevant of which is Reaching Escape Velocity, detailing the "meta-hack" of getting a massive project off the ground with very few resources.
I've spent
many years building and researching gizmology for technomadic
projects. The research vessel
is a perfect example: starting with an Amazon 44 steel pilothouse
sailboat, I'm deploying a network of 15 Arduino nodes reporting to a
Mac Mini hub that's always on... providing network services, archived
telemetry, security, tracking, diagnostics, and overall situation
awareness. Commercial boxes that do much less cost $10K or more,
and it occurred to me recently that I should start selectively selling
clones of my systems.
But why stop there? Harsh-environment packaging, favorite
hardware, NMEA2000 goodies, trackers and dataloggers... there's
actually quite a lot in the strange boundary region between mainstream "marine
electronics" and "hard-core geekery." That's what this store will
be all about, along with lots of documentation about how to do things
yourself. Having recently been burned by professionals charging
hefty hourly rates, I'm making it a mission to collect and disseminate
useful DIY information along with the parts and tools to make it
possible.
This
will take the form of additional books, focused on topic areas, along
with corresponding kits or key components. In the meantime, I'm
populating the store with some of my favorite devices, like the Arduino
controllers, sensors, and so on.
I welcome suggestions and product requests.
For Microship, Nomadness, BEHEMOTH, and other technomadic goodness, you can continue to my home page at microship.com.
