This is the home of Nomadness, the latest technomadic substrate of Nomadic Research Labs. Previous projects are scattered around the Microship site, but this one is focused on the new boat and its embedded geekery… as well as voyaging adventures.
Highlights as of Aug 26, 2010:
The Nomadness Blog is about to become lively again after having been dormant since March for technical reasons (any comments added since then have been lost, alas). A new post was added on Aug 24, covering the recent haulout, what to do with the Microship, and the insane complexity of the changes underway.
The Microship is now for sale, and can be seen on Yachtworld.
I am in the process of shutting down my facilities on Camano Island, and am looking for a renter… we’re moving aboard the two boats (Nomadness and Dervish), currently sharing an end tie in Olympia.
My latest book, Reaching Escape Velocity, is available in my online store or Amazon.
The mobile lab named Polaris is now essentially done, and is a key component in the next phase of moving aboard and focusing on geekery. I wrote a 4-part series about it for MAKE: Online.
I still maintain my classic live page, which is updated almost every day with the ephemera: my current project to-do list, eBay listings and sales, the latest static image from the boat webcam, occasional Tweets, and various other things too fleeting to become blog posts.
There is a dedicated page for the boat webcam (updating once a minute), as well as a link to my APRS tracker that displays my current location on a Google map. Either may be active or not, depending on what’s going on.
In preparation for moving aboard, tonnage-reduction is a huge priority. I have a list of books for sale as well as an eBay store, and (just for the motivation) maintain a list of artifacts that have found new homes in the past 30 days.
I’m still playing the piano (about 4 years now) and will be building the Roland RD-700SX into the lab/studio desk on the boat. I just shyly uploaded my first YouTube video: Gnossiennes 3 & 4 by Erik Satie.
Speaking of video, my talk at Xerox PARC back in 1989 was recently unearthed and YouTubed… then posted on Hackaday and elsewhere. This was just at the beginning of the BEHEMOTH project: Part 1. Part 2. (about 13 minutes total)
More very soon; the new site just went live Sunday night!
Moored in the south end of Puget Sound
