So i thought this fits here, he calls the boat Helios 11 and builds it with very little experience. He docunents the adventure quite well and shares what he learns, and also shares all the plans for the boat for free.
Frankly waiting for the news story where he gets killed “proving” his concept…
The first warning bell was “rated for cross-atlantic”… “rated” by whom?
Of course then there’s the latter part where he talks about the next one is going to be super amazingly polished autonomous vessel with everything up to and including a sauna from the solar… And of course the sovereign citizen take…
Cool doing a project like this, but it smells of overconfidence in what it currently is and how trivial it will be to get to something much much more…
It does not run forever.
If only we could build an undersea country in this way, but without the psychopaths. And let the land people make hell for themselves if they want, just freedom for the sane ones.
Welcome… to rapture!
Yeah, except not fascist.
Leaving a comment so I can watch this later.
maybe star/save your comment or something because i am doing the same. i’m planning on kitting out my camping setup with solar so i can take our ebikes with us and i bet this video has all the info i need (i am pretty sure i have it all figured out except the precise wiring but more knowledge never hurt okay i just thought up an exception to that but you know what i mean) i am not pausing babylon 5 tho
On my version of Boost there are options to see your upvoted etc, and saved posts, but it doesn’t work anymore
It did work. I atarted out saving things here and there and then an update wiped it all out and no longer works. Or it didn’t the last time I tried it
And it lets you look like a super-spy.
The sound of the water moving and echoing throughout the hull would drive me crazy.
Very cool project though
And then a group of armed butt pirates arrived in a gasoline powered speedboat.
I absolutely want to Rick my life on a first time jr devs code… Err… boat design. 👌
I remember reading about a Finn who spent 5 years, half part calculating, half building a small aeroplane in his apartment. Neighbours were let in on the knowing when he needed them to open their doors to poke a plane part into their apartements to get the thing down from IIRC third floor and out.
He flew it too!
I read it in the early nineties and the thing was maybe from the eighties. He didn’t solder anything but drilled like 30.000 holes and riveted it all together.
Finns are cool.
And then there’s this German champ hobbying together an entire tank in their basement:
Reminds me of Richards Reactor, a dude in Sweden who attemoted to build a smal scale nuclear reactor of some sort in his apartment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Handl
Not too long ago his blogg was still up, found this but the nuclear stuff is gone:
https://richardsreactor.blogspot.com/2017/02/170222-visit-from-police.html?m=1
Someone in the comments said it best, it’s a very cool canal boat but nothing that light would stand-up to open ocean waves.
It could work in nice weather in the Mediterranean or some other more calm seas
its ok for coastal mediteranean too. He did use it through canals of northern europe to get down to spain.
That’s actually impressive.
He gets into this in the later videos but he’s living aboard it quite a while now in the Mediterranean.
Meh, do you know the level of tech that spread mankind across the world. Roughly logs. OP is likely fine.
This specific design maybe not, but similar light plywood-epoxy catamarans based on designs by James Wharram are well regarded and proven open-ocean sailboats.
Is that a river boat they started with? That thing looks like it’d crack in two over a strong wave.
No no, he said “rated for atlantic crossing”, so it’s got to be good, right?
Does he say how much it cost him?
No, he only says that it is affordable to a medium sized budget.
My educated guess is that it costs around 25,000€ to build this. The ePropulsion engine and battery you can see in the video is about 10,000€ of that.
He want’s to make it
AI controlled
aww man
I respect his solar commitement, but listening to him it’s obvious he’s a libertarian Elon-Bro… my immediate reaction is “oh no… it’s retarded.”
And the concept isn’t new, solar boats have been a thing for ages now and most of them are (like @OwOarchist@pawb.social suggested) catamarans or trimarans.
Can we please avoid using abelist slurs in this community?
Heard and edited.
Oh, it’s OK, he specifically addressed how to get good AI results. He commanded Chat-GPT to give him good info. If you just ask nicely it won’t work, you have to be forceful. Forget boat building, he should clearly be teaching classes on using LLMs.
AI can be fine, I cringed at the mention of Starlink, even though that’s a case where it makes sense.
There’s currently not really an alternative to Starlink for this type of use sadly. If speed isn’t a concern then there are, but for typical internet usage there really isn’t.
Sadly true
I’d like to second Povoq’s request and ask that we’re more mindful of the words we choose and their impact please.
Honestly not a terrible use of ai. I imagine it’s pretty good at spotting things in a sparse environment like the middle of the ocean.
Wouldn’t that just be a regular software that uses ML for just image detection?
I suspect voice control + a small LLM for tool uses qualifies it as “AI”
Which is terrible imo cause they were never considered intelligence before, just tools that barely worked
Quite frankly, in the last two years, I’ve accepted the AI term because that’s pretty close to what we expected sci-fi AI to be.
Something that you talk to that understands from the context what you mean and that calls the appropriate tool is exactly things like Jarvis, like HAL 9000.
That’s a fair point, we also called video game enemy algorithm AI.
But no one calls that AI, I think the key indicator is a statistical model instead of a human coded script
Yes and no. “AI” has been a marketing term over a decade now, it’s a vague statement which is pretty much mandatory to get funding.
In theory, I agree with you, automated navigation of boats seems like a good fit for machine learning.
Technically over a decade, but feels like that’s an understatement.
In the 1940s some people called a machine to play NIM as “Artificial Intelligence”. People talked about opponent AI in checkers games before most of us were born.
Certainly by the 80s using “AI” to describe the manipulations of enemy characters was all-in.
It’s not retarded, just looking for investors and learning to speak their language.
USA: and I took that personally.
No touching of US boats.
But this touches their drill baby drill with a boat.
This will leave them more confused than after a weekend grinder bender at a GOP conference.
You have been blockaded by USA.
You have been bombed out of the water by the USA
The USA do be blowing up boats and murdering their crews on the regular these days…
Such a cool project. Now, if only I didn’t live 1000 km from the sea in a small apartment…
Just build it out the window and wait for the waters to rise. Biblically correct method 👍
Just mod it into a helicopter to carry the boat, easy.
Yeah I’ll make a design on the back of a napkin. Nothing can possibly go wrong.
Hhaahha ummm yeah :(
