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Cesar Harada (28) is an French-Japanese inventor and entrepreneur.
Cesar invented a ground-breaking sailing technology, a boat that changes shape, “Protei”. Originally developed to clean up the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Protei is an Open Hardware project now developed by an international community of scientists, engineers and designers for many other applications such as nuclear radiation sensing off Japan, plastic sensing in the Pacific garbage patch, red tide studies in Mexico and much more.
Cesar is also the general coordinator of the future International Ocean Station. Former Project leader at MIT, Cesar teaches Masters in Design & Environment at Goldsmiths University in London. Cesar graduated in 2009 from the Design Interactions course at the Royal College of Arts in London, his collaborative project Open_Sailing received the Ars Electronica Golden Nica award for the [NEXT IDEA].

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Scenes of the Apocalypse after Typhoon, Bible Expo, Incheon Korea

This morning, 9:15 AM, September 2nd 2010, Incheon, Korea @ apocalyptic scenes at the Bible expo.


The broken Pyramid

Broken temple

Violence is blind

Broken birds of paradise 

The forbidden cult of golden ox stands strong

Derelict crosses mount

Fortress twisted by the typhoon

The great flood

Trying to escape the flood

Moses lost the table of commands

Desolation of the Pieta

If we had the world in our hands, we'd probably break it down...

Stairway to Hell

Hell

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Protei-003


also on youtube
20100817 in Lake Pontchartrain

http://protei.org
by Open_Sailing + randomwalks
Cesar Harada + Sey Min

thanks to
LA Bucket Brigade : http://labucketbrigade.org/
Suzette Toledano Becker : http://suzettebecker.com/
with the support of V2_ :  http://v2.nl/
Special thanks to Hunter Daniel, Mariko Toyoji, Shannon Dosemagen. 

Test of Protei-003 (3m long, 6.5 meter high, 25kg total, 18kg ballast) didnt go that well ... hum hum... The mast feet broke, not enough triangulation I guess... the ballast didn't affect the direction enough (too flexible keel) ... and there was no wind (HAHAHA) just enough of a beautiful sun to make really romantic pictures, the best one below by Hunter Daniel. BUT we learnt a lot and Protei-004 will be Übercool! Can't be bingo every time, right :) For those who don't know about Protei : it is a fleet of semi-autonomous sailboat that are specifically designed to pull long heavy loads, long oil-absorbant booms to collect oil spill. http://protei.org You can also check out the previous test machines that led us to this design : Protei-002 (entirely articulated RC boat), Protei-001 (front-steering boat).
And now time travel : from the navigation back into the making : 

Protei-003
Protei-003 close-upProtei-003Protei-003P1011273Protei-003
Protei-003
Protei-003
Hunter Daniel and Protei-003test flotation Protei-003
Protei-003 preparing
Protei-003
Protei-003 preparationProtei-003 command boardtest fitting protei-003Protei-003 fabrication
junction piece for Protei-003

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Protei-001

Yesterday went testing Protei-001 on Lake Pontchartrain (New Orleans LA). 
What's so special for Protei-001? It is a Front-Steering Remote Control Sailing Boat  (the rudder is right a the front of the boat).
First tested without a tail, and with the tail (about 4 meters). Without the tail, the maneuverability is amazing ; with the tail, the control is pretty good, much better than  with a classical back rudder sailing boat. The aim is to make a powerfull yet simple semi-autonomous sailing boat with a high pulling capacity - in the case of Protei it is a long oil-absorbing tail that cleans an oil spill.

Also on youtube 

http://protei.org
by Open_Sailing + Random Walks
Cesar Harada + Sey Min

Thanks to : 
LA Bucket Brigade : labucketbrigade.org/
Suzette Toledano Becker : suzettebecker.com/
V2_ : v2.nl/

Based on the T37 : modelsailboat.com/

Protei-001 is on the second line of this diagram, Protei-002 (third line) is an all articulated boat, to be tested very soon!

More pictures :)

This is the technical drawing of Protei-002, with the exact same proportions of Protei-001, but not only front-steering : the whole boat can curve :
testing Protei-002 very very soon! Stay tuned ~

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