New England ExplorersExploration & Adventurers in New England

Our weekend started off great when found what we believe might be the original Granite Monster. We met with my brother Steve and discussed the issue of the block being upside down. When we hit problems like this Steve always seems to be able to pull a solution out of his hat, and as usual he did. We have made plans to lift up the corner of the granite block using special tools suited for difficult jobs. With the block tightly seat on a bed of small rocks, difficult is an understatement. If ll goes well we’ll soon be able to see if we found the correct granite block.

We updated the rep from the Lighthouse museum on what we found. We also shared our recent 3D model we did of the blocks on the rocky shoreline. He liked the model so much he is interested in using them on a touch screen kiosk they have at the museum. We’re now shopping around for a tool that will host and display the models for the museum visitors interact with and enjoy.

You can interact with the recent model we created at this website. If you hold down the left or right mouse button and move your mouse it will either rotate or move in the direction you move the mouse. You can also use the mouse wheel to zoom in and out of the model to examine details much closer.

Sunday we finally were able to get started on building the ROV. Richard is the member of our expedition who is leading the build. We didn’t have our the acrylic cement yet, so we jumped right into doing some soldering. The online directions were great, and easy to follow. We made some good progress, and after our first day, feel it shouldn’t take long to complete.

We’ll be sure to post more photos of our progress after our next build meet.

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You can check out our expedition and many other great expeditions at OpenExplorer.

New England Explorers Expedition

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You can also learn more about the open source ROV we’re using on this expedition at OpenROV.

~Michael