Make: Volume 78

Adobe Stock-boxerx, Scout team

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utonomous vehicles are complicated,

undoubtedly, but that didn’t stop us from

endeavoring to be the first to launch a successful

autonomous navigation of the Atlantic Ocean.

What began as a joke between college kids

quickly morphed into a challenge, an obsession,

and years later, careers in the industry and a

startup of our own.

The first iterations of the boat were designed

in 2010 with the goal of traversing the Atlantic

autonomously. Since it had never been done

before and the journey across the vast ocean was

largely unknown and mysterious, we called the

project Scout. The name was also a shout-out to

the