scenario

My first design concept was about; how users could design and build there boat themselves and then put those boats into the sea and control them from there own homes. After working on this project I found out that many of those boats which are build aren't good qualitative build boats. By keeping in mind that the garbage spills in the ocean keep growing (source: http://www.wlsam.com/Article.asp?id=2452508&spid=) it can be considered not so smart to let everybody build there boat and put them at sea without a quality check. 

At this moment however we aren't ready to build autonomous boats and let them sail the oceans to clean up oil. this research process is in a too early stage for this. I build this boat not to facilitate the mechanical/physical innovation for protei, such as the shape-shifting hull, but more to explore the innovation of the intelligence and control of the boat.  When more of these boats are build also inter-boat cooperation can be researched.

So what I facilitate is a platform for competition between different protei developers which are developing new versions of this boat at home and improve the design and test it themselves. The outcomes of all these individual developments are shared in the community and in this ongoing competition all users will build upon the previous design.

In my final report I will include an extensive how to build chapter to reproduce this boat and build upon the things I've designed