What would your ultimate ocean research platform look like? Mine would be open source, vendor agnostic, flexible. It would monitor acoustic telemetry, water conditions, and operate in real time, be student friendly and INEXPENSIVE. Let's build it! #OpenSourceScience #makers

New S.L.O.R.P. project PCBs just arrived from OshPark. Time to break out the microscope and do some soldering.

It has arrived!

PCBs...check, components...check , stencil...check, solder paste...check, reflow oven...check, power plug...☹️

Made a small production run of shark LED coasters for some coworkers. It fires the laser when you tap it when sitting flat, changes colour depending on the temperature and goes into full rainbow shark when you pick it up!

Not quite NASA quality, but pretty good for the first board out of the reflow oven. #jlcpcb #slorp #digikey #sharklab #csulb

Each cup is filled with components of the same value and type, freed from their bondage…tape. Ready to place, by hand, while squinting through my microscope. #slorp #thesethingsaretiny #csulbsharklab #jlcpcb #digikey

Looks pretty good, aside from the small solder bridge on U2.

So, this appeared in my FB feed today.

Looking through old photos and a came across this one. A touchscreen Etch-A-Sketch I made as a birthday gift for a for a friend in 2016.

Turning a lab experiment into a commercial product definitely has its challenges! #OCT #MedicalOptics #PVOCT #Arrrgggghhh

Back in 2014, I made a jacket that lit up for a friend of a friend. #Arduino #WWE #summerslam2014 #Jericho #JonathanLogan

This aerial footage by Tovi Sonnenberg shows a shiver of sharks swimming through a massive school of fish near Bridgehampton, New York [full video, HD: bit.ly/3APYSrN-]

Adding a new computer and sensors to the AUV. Finished for the day, and just wanted to let everyone know that the shouldn’t touch the work in progress.

Beach Days - Shark Spies online.fliphtml5.com/iarga/zfbn/

Two buoys sitting in the repair waiting room. Both of them mysteriously stopped transmitting within the last two weeks.

ChatGPT on Great White Sharks. #greatwhitesharks #ChatGPT

Here is what Chat GPT has to say about the CAULB SharkLab. #chatgpt #csulb #caulbsharklab #sharklab

Thoughts?

I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!!!