Reaching out @KUBU

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[…]

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Promising PID Controller Calculation

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[…]

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History Repeating?

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[…]

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Good to go?!

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[…]

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Balloon Blast

In free-style scale model prototyping one can daydream into that microcosm, where you can do miraculous pointy-headed things you could never do in full size reality. A good example for this is to use air balloons from the jamboree store to level and balance the shiplet’s position and mass distribution inside the tubular ballast tanks.[…]

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