A buoy and its blog

 

Prototype science buoy in calm, 'pollinated' water

Greetings enthusiats! We have a good deal to write about and will be release a series of short posts to get you all caught up. We apologize for the lack of project communication, but a much was to be done.

We'll start off with the prototype telepresence buoy. As mentioned in a previous post, the MVP for both the Standing Rush and Yorktown sites was planned to look something like the following.

 

MVP for student egagement

The buoy is an efficient and simple design, completely reproducible from off the shelf products found at you local Home Depot, Lowes, Ace Hardware, and so forth. We'll post build details later on.

 

MVP Prototype

 

Sensor housing on bottom of buoy

 

Building the internals - Arduino UNO and Vernier Shield

 

Water testing in Yorktown, VA

 

Base Station Prototype

 

Getting ready for Toledo Public School interaction

There's so much more to say, and we will say it in upcomming posts. Design changes, weather and wave fortification, better on-board autonomy, and so forth are in the works.

More to come, stay tuned!