The talk and workshop went great. I was too busy to photograph the flights, but will get photos soon. Su Liu came up with a great double-layer heat seaming strategy for her tetrahedron balloon- it was fast and quick:
Reed Arts Week
Help Protei! Autonomous, oil-sopping sailbots
This is a project I whole heartedly support. Cesar Harada has put together an incredible team, and with a little money it is going to happen.
“We are developing Protei : a low-cost open-source oil collecting robot that autonomously sails upwind, intercepting oil sheens going downwind. Protei combines conventional technologies in an innovative design that we can implement in the short term to address timely environmental crisis.”