To balance the numerous variables that change quickly, like gusts of wind, waves, ship motion, draft, etc. we will use four active horizontal fin stabilizers. The fins are pivoted on the carbon fibre rods between central hull and side tubes. They are supposed to trim the vessels position in the water with fast reactions, before[…]
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There is no doubt that the shiplet’s central submarine hull – a drain pipe – needs some face lifting for the next iteration of the protoype. On its topface we add another tube as a lifting body, which also hosts the carbon-fibre slats that will connect to the side tubes and mount the fin stabilizers.[…]
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After successful tests to control the height level and balance of o1.01 with its four ballast tanks in our test basin, the time seems right for the next iteration. To find out if the prototype can actually defy wind and waves we have to get out in open waters. The vessel has to speed through[…]
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For nostalgic reasons the prototyping hobbyists decided that o1.01‘s carbonized cerebellum is an ATmega324PA 8bit microcontroller. We will use it to level and balance the platform both via ballast tanks and adjustable fin stabilizers. The fin stabilizers will be driven by servos. But to start with, we want to control the pumps and valves located[…]
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The proof of the pudding is in the eating. And therefore it is a common practice in the design process of a new vessel to create a prototype scale model. To find out, if we manage to keep the three tubular based, submarine-like hull and the deck platform balanced while sailing through wind and waves,[…]
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In July 2017 after a long night full of ideas and slipslop in Berlin Tuomo and I ended up with the plan to take the SWATH design to the max and modify the concept to just a deck above the surface carried by a three-tube underwater submarine platform. The center tube would later be the[…]
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Looking at how commercial sailing fleets have developed after the introduction of the first steam-powered ocean liners in the middle of the 19th century is quite impressive. Within a few decades and latest with the armament of the First World War the great clippers and windjammers simply just disappeared. A new fossil fuels burning technology[…]
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How do you put a handle on Utopia? How should we get started with building OHANDA ONE? That was the key question we discussed within the three days workshop at PIKSEL 16 in Bergen, Norway, at the end of 2016. In the workshop we wanted to take the first steps to making our vision a[…]
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In July 2016 we applied for funding at The New Zealand National Commission for United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) via ada – the Aotearoa Digital Arts Network, the national research network for critical discussion and presentation of digital and media arts in New Zealand: Crew.one – A talanoa/hui on sustainable sea research[…]
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CERN is surely one of the most exciting places on earth for those who share any interest in science and the vision of international collaboration and openness. And besides that it is also well known for some sort of megalomania, hosting the largest “thing” in the world – the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). So when[…]
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