On Saturday, September 13th, 2025, at 15:00h, there will be a hilarious get-together around the official launching of the first [(fully)] functional 1:100 scale model prototype of OHANDA ONE – aka the shiplet. We warmly welcome everyone who wants to join us at the Müggelsee waterfront in Berlin-Friedrichshagen. If you are interested in becoming a[…]
Starting from 2012 in summer several hundred people meet in the southwest of Finland every year to gather at NORPAS festival. Starting from last year Tuomo’s and Sari’s culture house project KUBU has firmly established itself as an additional venue for the diverse program and became a remote refuge for local and international artists. NORPAS[…]
It was a great privilege and pleasure to join the Imagining Godzilla trip this summer. Godzilla is an experimental platform for short term art-research projects, based on the sailing catamaran Godzilla. Tuomo, Julian and I got invited by Andrew Best-Dunkley and Merja Puustinen to join their cruise from Middelfart to Kiel between July 7th and[…]
It’s one thing to dream about a new futuristic ship design and to playfully prototype it as an amateur. It’s another thing to present your utopian speculative design project to the experts. But what could be better than receiving substantiated feedback from those who really know. Still I could sense a little excitement when Julian[…]
The common and predominant way for applications requiring continuously modulated control – like keeping the shiplet in stable submerged balance – is to use a so called proportional–integral–derivative (PID) controller to calculate the actuators’ actions based on the input of the sensor data in a continuous loop. As described in the former post Cybernetic Marine[…]
It feels like a perfect match when you think that everything is going well while you are decorating a gallery space in Bergen called “Alt Går Bra” – Norwegian for “everything is going well”. Revisiting Piksel Festival after 8 years luckily we have a bit more to show these days than just vague ideas: Now[…]
Preparing for a simulation / summer camp for an enacted journey on Ohanda One 2026 Ohanda.One is a long-term utopian science fiction (project) played out by an international, transdisciplinary group of Open Knowledge Enthusiast, designing, building and operating a futuristic zero emission ocean vessel. The vessel will host about 150 to 200 people for traveling[…]
A good lesson about failures of theoretical design and learning from practical research findings is when we observe that the shiplet won’t plunge when test-driving in open waters. After checking the software and many other possible reasons, it turns out the depth meter does not work. But it only fails when driving, what made it[…]
In April 1875 Sir Henry Bessemer launched the Bessemer Saloon Ship, an experimental Victorian cross-channel passenger paddle steamer, intended to combat seasickness with a swinging cabin, a concept devised by the engineer and inventor that he patented in December 1869. The cabin was designed to pivot independently of the ship’s hull, suspended on a system[…]
After 7 years of prototyping it feels almost a bit unreal when we suddenly start wondering what actually still needs to be done before the shiplet’s first test run on open waters. Besides continuous iterations of optimizing the code it looks like there is not so much left to do at the moment. Are we[…]