
PROJECTS: Solar Portable Houseboat
ERIC STACKPOLE is co-founder and
original designer of OpenROV, now
Sofar Ocean, connecting the world’s
oceans to power a more sustainable
future. Before that he worked at NASA
Ames Research Center and studied
mechatronics at Santa Clara University. An exploration
technology innovator, he is co-star of the National
Geographic show OceanXplorers.
DAVID LANG is co-founder of
OpenROV and Sofar Ocean, and
executive director of the Experiment
Foundation, funding science via
platform philanthropy and challenge
grants. A former contributing editor of
Make: (see “Unleash the Amateurs” in Make: Volume
84), he is the ...