What’s Happening at JPA

We take our work very seriously, but not ourselves.

Be kind down there.

Up top with Away 75.

We’re building up a “desktop” version of our submarine. Not the whole thing just the computers, networks, relays and sensors. It will make coding & testing a lot easier. I just finished soldering up the Arduino daughter board for the command router and internal systems relays.

Dark Sky Station  Short on Youtube:

https://youtube.com/shorts/NG2gU7X0IyQ?si=KAP8Vz3jIl9_xPMT

Now that the new keel weights are mounted on the sub all the stuff that gets mounted above them can go back in. Tanks, valves, batteries, manifolds… But 1st tanks need to be checked.

Bellavia (our submarine) is getting a big code revision. Lots of increased error handling and tying network error messaging to the voice interface. That way Bella can help with the troubleshooting.

Yesterday we inflated the inner air beam structure for the Ellipse airship. It was a bit too windy, but we needed to check the position of the inner liner. Sure enough it had a twist. We’ll need to pull and reinstall it before the whole thing gets mounted inside the airship.

Yesterday the team installed all 42 of the new keel plates on the sub. We decided to do it with the sub on the trailer rather than do the whole crane lift off load. We got it done but it was like playing twister while weightlifting.