Day 1 — Project Bob

We’re going to circumnavigate the world with a droneship Andrew’s next hobby project is here. The goal is to complete an around the world ocean trip, autonomously navigating 25,000 miles over the course of one year. The droneship will be streaming to X live via Starlink through the whole journey. Will it work? Who knows. Do we have a specific goal? Not really. We're just here for the grand adventure and the inevitable memes. Why?? Insatiable curiosity, or just poor impulse control? Honestly, building stuff is fun. I like to wade into the deep end of subjects I’m not qualified for and come out the other side with a story and a new skill. A lot of things inspired this idea. For my day job, I build spacecraft + satellites which orbit the earth. When I watched our reentry footage (), it was a conscious altering thing to watch the camera film all the way from orbit to sitting on the desert floor. It just puts things in perspective, that we live on this giant but ultimately tiny blue ma

We’re going to circumnavigate the world with a droneship Andrew’s next hobby project is here. The goal is to complete an around the world ocean trip, autonomously navigating 25,000 miles over the course of one year. The droneship will be streaming to X live via Starlink through the whole journey. Will it work? Who knows. Do we have a specific goal? Not really. We're just here for the grand adventure and the inevitable memes. Why?? Insatiable curiosity, or just poor impulse control? Honestly, building stuff is fun. I like to wade into the deep end of subjects I’m not qualified for and come out