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Oceanography's dependence on expensive, proprietary robots and sensors to measure the ocean and the bespoke manufacturers who sell and support them is a barrier to being able to lower the cost of collecting data and being able to scale it up.  The following examples have happened in Oceanography: Company failures: Companies have gone out of business, ceasing the ability to support or refurbish their products, leaving customers with proprietary products with no chance for support. [1]  Forced obsolescence: For various reasons companies will cease support of older products, leaving customers with proprietary products with no chance for support [2].  In…

Why: I am unemployed and need to figure out my next step.My goal is to create a startup that makes open source ocean robots and sensors that work together. I have never written much publicly but have always wanted to.  This is a chance to finally do that.Writing things and making them public is an incredible amount of pressure to do things the right way.  I like this pressure.  It is this kind of accountability that I can get used to.I tried using Claude to code in spring of 2025.  It was decent.  I tried again in Fall of 2025 and…

What: I am interested in making a monitor for my parents.  They are elderly and do not want to move out of their home, and are at the stage where if we don't hear from them after a while we get worried.  I am at the age (51) where my college friends are also going through similar issues.  My goals for this project are:  There are only going to be more older people in this world as humans live longer and the 'boomer' generation ages.  The number of Americans ages 65 and older is projected to increase from 58 million…