David Lang: My underwater robot
ডেভিড ল্যাং: আমার ডুবো রোবট
David Lang is a maker and the co-founder of OpenROV, a community of ocean lovers who build underwater robots. Full bio
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of how it got started.
and we wanted to go up there.
our intentions and our plans
to the cave. We were ready.
became quite a story,
had this money to make these kits.
which was a big help to us,
any venture-backed counterpart.
was much more valuable.
the James Camerons of the world,
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
David Lang - MakerDavid Lang is a maker and the co-founder of OpenROV, a community of ocean lovers who build underwater robots.
Why you should listen
David Lang is a maker whose craving for adventure turned him into an amateur ocean explorer. A few years ago Lang and NASA engineer Eric Stackpole went looking for lost gold (literally) in an underwater cave in the foothills of the Sierra Navada. But they weren't quite sure how to go about it. Without much expertise (or money), the two put initial designs for an underwater robot explorer online. Soon OpenROV was born: a community of citizen ocean explorers who build and constantly improve upon these small remote operated underwater robots.
Lang is also the author of Zero to Maker and a 2013 TED Fellow. He lives on a sailboat in the San Francisco Bay.
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