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Building a Mobile Digitizing Lab

Here in late 2022, as a sort of technomadic swan song, I have embarked on a new adventure in mobile geekery. There will be no pedaling this time, nor is this another floating extravaganza of boat...

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Bikepacking article – first digital nomad

This beautifully written 2023 article by Lucas Winzenburg in Bikepacking captures the flavor of my 17,000-mile adventure from the technological and cultural perspective of 40 years down the road. It...

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1974 Vic Franck Delta 50

Floating Technomadic Lab/Office for Sale! Posts in this wide-ranging archive have covered my move to the “Dark Side” – selling my Amazon 44 named Nomadness on the quest for floating lab space. I bought...

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Snapshots of Extreme Audio

As an engineer, one of the most absurd things on the Interwebs is the profusion of tech nonsense… wishful thinking, art projects presented as reality, and the industry of audiophile pseudoscience. I...

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Feline Existential Angst

Inspired by being roused from a nap to be hauled off in the carrier to spend a day with me at the lab, Isabelle threw herself wholeheartedly into completing volume 2 of her critically acclaimed...

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Project Delta

When I bought this sexy lab trailer, I was dealing with a red-alert… my business lease in Friday Harbor had become unstable, and it was impossible to find a rental on this rock except for overpriced...

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Industrial Design with Microcomputers

An early textbook in microprocessor design written by Steven K. Roberts (1981) Prentice-Hall • ISBN 0-13-459461-4 I spent most of 1981 deeply immersed in this textbook project, which was not only the...

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Feline AFib Detection

Retrospective Atrial Fibrillation Detection via Feline Jacobsonian Substrate Analysis of Nocturnal Adhesive Artifacts Steven K. Roberts, Nomadic Research Labs, with Isabel and Alice Abstract In a...

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Meet Bionode

A Mobile Lab on a Hand Truck by Steven K. Roberts Nomadic Research Labs Introducing a self-sufficient information toolkit on wheels… with 14TB of NAS, video and audio production, sensor suite,...

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Mobile Lab Reloaded – Wheels within Wheels

For 40 years, I have been building and traveling with mobile labs… from the primitive Winnebiko “computerized recumbent bicycle” to the $1.2 million BEHEMOTH… from Microship trimarans that never quite...

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