Maker Faire Philadelphia 2025

Maker Buoy is an open source design for a low-cost ocean tracking buoy.

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Maker Buoy is an open source buoy design that provides low-cost ocean data collection to researchers and educators. Visit the Maker Buoy booth to see how off-the-shelf hardware can travel around the world helping us better understand the ocean.

https://www.makerbuoy.com/
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Maker Buoy is an open source design for a low-cost ocean tracking buoy. - Maker Faire Philadelphia 2024

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Wayne Pavalko

Wayne Pavalko is a passionate electronics and hardware tinkerer. After doing some experiments with Arduino and ocean hardware, he found himself supporting the ocean research community with custom technology. Those efforts eventually resulted in Maker Buoy, an open source hardware and software design for ocean exploration.

https://www.makerbuoy.com/

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