Searchwing

Website	http://searchwing.org
Contact	http://sea-watch.org, http://searchwing.org, info@searchwing.org
Description	We are a collaboration between Berlin hackers and the Seawatch NGO. We are developing and building autonomous open-source long-range drones to help finding and rescuing refugees in the Mediterranean sea.
Members	Benthor, Starbug, Steini
Projects	create project
There Is No Game
Self-organized Sessions	create self-organized session
Related to Assembly	FlyingObjects
Tags	drone, drones, searchwing, seawatch, refugees, politics, making, berlin, uav, autonomous
Registered on	8 December 2016 18:17:10
Location for self-organized sessions	maybe
Self-organized session notes	Ad-hoc hacking sessions on autopilot hardware/software. Nothing explicitly planned but we expect some stuff will happen spontaneously.
Other assemblies by tags... 3d 3d-printing 3d printing 3d scanning aif anarchism arduino beer bitcoin bsd ccc chaostreff chaos west ctf erfa free software free speech freifunk gnu hackerspace hacking hackspace hardware hacking linux makerspace making politics privacy raspberrypi soldering students surveillance university
Location	Note: The location on the map does not represent a reservation of a location and might not represent the actual place, where a assembly can be found. The place can be changed within the form of the assembly by anyone. It will be updated by the assembly itself on day 0 or day 1 as soon as the actual location is known.
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Orga contact	steini@elektropost.org
Brings	Various working fixed wing drones and the tools to work on them, informational material.
Projects	We will demonstrate our drones during the days and hack on the autopilot and ground station software during the nights.
Uses money	no money handling
Plays TING	yes
Plays TING skills	{{{Plays ting skills}}}
Character of assembly	place to show and meet
Seats needed	6
Extra seats	4
Assembly specification	loud place ok, want sit public
Planning notes	We would prefer having our assembly down in the hackcenter (Saal 3 iirc?), alongside the other hardware nerds. This is is not absolutely must-have for us, but it would be nice.
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We are a collaboration between Berlin hackers and the Seawatch NGO. We are developing and building autonomous open-source long-range drones to help finding and rescuing refugees in the Mediterranean sea.

Our assembly is meant to complement our talk (entitled "Searchwing" in the "Hardware & Making" track) and provide both a public hacking area for the drones and and a gathering place for everyone who is interested in the activities of Seawatch. We will appreciate in-depth technical feedback on our talk as well as visitors interested in the humanitarian volunteer work in general. People are always welcome to have a close look at our drones and the hardware stack we are using. This is a purely humanitarian project, benefiting from complete openness. We happily put all knowledge and expertise we gather into the public domain. Autonomous drone use needs to be democratized and humanized. We need to level the playing field and counterbalance all the unethical uses drones are being put to by governments and military. Our talk and especially this assembly will help with that.