Imtech marine + skype meetings

During the weekly skype meetings with our client and the meetings with the community on monday some interesting things come up. This blogpost will summarize the most interesting things of the past few weeks in these meetings.

DEAF 2012
during the meetings at the start of the project the agreement was made to present our results at the Dutch Electronic Arts Festival 2012 (short DEAF), this event on the 17th of May will be a podium to show our development for the protei community and also let us discuss our results with a lot of different people from within different fields of interest to widen our view on the project.



No flexible hull for protei TUE
During the meetings we decided to not use the flexible hull mechanism in the protei project at the TU/e this decision was made to save time with building the ships and start thinking about intelligence and user involvement as soon as possible

logo of TUE protei team.  

Imtech
Imtech marine has first hand experience with building autonomous sailing boats. They were interested in the work we do at the TU/e and contacted Piem Wirtz who brought Mart Hurkmans in contact with me.

I made an appointment with Mart Hurkmans for the 10th of April to meet at Imtech Marine in Rotterdam.
In this appointment we can discuss the possibilities of working together on some parts and how we can use each others knowledge in the design process.

Also I asked other fellow student if they wanted to join me to visit Imtech marine and probably 4 students will join me.