David Lang: My underwater robot
דייויד לאנג: הרובוט התת מימי שלי
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.
ורצינו ללכת לשם.
our intentions and our plans
את הכוונות שלנו והתוכניות שלנו.
to the cave. We were ready.
למערה, היינו מוכנים.
became quite a story,
הפכה לסיפור די גדול,
had this money to make these kits.
היה לנו את הכסף ליצור את הערכות האלה.
which was a big help to us,
שעזר לנו רבות,
any venture-backed counterpart.
was much more valuable.
היה בעל ערך הרבה יותר גדול.
the James Camerons of the world,
לג'יימס קמרונים של העולם,
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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