The Museum of Computer History calls Steve Robert’s Behemoth a “highly visible artifact of early wireless moblile networking”. Roberts rode his futuristic recumbent cycle ‚àö¬± and an earlier model whimsically named the Winnebiko which featured a Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 100 and a Compuserve account — for 17,000 miles, writing articles and books and emailing his work to publishers along the way.

The Behemoth [above, left] is now in the Museum, but technomad Roberts’ new Microship project, which involves a “networked pair of amphibian canoe-scale pedal/solar/sail micro-trimarans” [above, right], should see him sending in yet more books and articles via yet more technificent devices from ever more remote corners of the globe.

It’ll be a solo space-pod next‚àö√±

Thanks, Jim Zorger

At the moment, we are immersed in numerous parallel projects: completing the remaining structural details of the twin Microships, subjecting them to a series of local test sails, designing the console systems, packaging the solar arrays, conjuring massive amounts of Squeak and PIC code for the control network and front end tools, writing a book about the project for O’Reilly & Associates, and so on… all taking place in our lab on Camano Island, Washington.

We welcome hands-on volunteers, occasional visitors, product sponsorship, and just about any other kind of support for this all-consuming project. Please feel free to get in touch if you’d like to participate in any way…