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Maker Faire Austin 2008
HydroRobotics
Robots in the Evironmental Field
HydroRobotics is my site to promote my interest in robots in the environmental field (engineering, mostly). The robots are mostly aquatic, since I am a water engineer by trade. At the last MakerFaire in Austin, I brought H2rObot, a prototype robotic surface vessel for bathymetric mapping and environmental sampling/mapping. This year, version 1.0 of H2rObot is finished and, by October, will have completed it's first real mapping job. My interest also includes ROVs and AUVs and I will have a small ROV at the Faire as well. A terrestrial version of H2rObot is in the works and I hope to have it at the Faire as well. The display includes information about the various robotic subsystems and sensors used and about the environmental application of the robots.
Web site: http://www.hydrorobotics.com
About the Maker(s)
Jim Patek
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A tinkerer/builder/hacker whose past projects include houses, furniture, hot rods, seismographs, weather stations, RC aircraft, submersibles, etc. He springs from a long line of folks simply too dumb to believe the old adage: "You can't DO that!"
http://www.hydrorobotics.com
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