Citizen Science With OpenROV

OpenROV is an underwater robot, roughly the size of a toaster, and definitely not human-shaped. The device is controlled through a Node.js-based web app. The creators of OpenROV are on a mission to democratize ocean exploration in the same way that Jobs and Woz sparked the democratization of computing.

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1. Citizen Science With OpenROV CloudCamp Chicago - Thursday, July 24, 2014
3. What is citizen science?
4. I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional…) 
 -Linus Torvalds
5. What is a robot?
6. In the early days of robots… robots looked human. That’s so 1950s. ! -Neil deGrasse Tyson
7. Remotely Operated Vehicle
9. OpenROV
15. TCP/IP
21. Are you a citizen scientist?
22. Thanks!