I'm working on a bit of testbench software for these guys - http://albatern.co.uk/ http://albatern.co.uk/ The software runs on an industrial controller (basica

I'm working on a bit of testbench software for these guys - http://albatern.co.uk/ http://albatern.co.uk/ The software runs on an industrial controller (basically an Intel Atom with a proprietary bus to connect tons of I/O modules), driving a bunch of electrical and hydraulic gear, and logging data for analysis. I like Albatern's idea for a wave power array based on lots of small, easily-deployed modules, and I'm hoping that their tests pan out and get them to production readiness. While I have just spent 2.5 days freezing my ass off coding in an unheated industrial shed in a Scottish winter, it was a shed full of massive wave power components - hydraulic hoses as thick as your arm, man-height generators, and so on - so that's pretty fun! When I wasn't coding, I also got to make myself useful by stripping cables and wiring an emergency stop box. In previous client work, I scrambled around wiring up sensors and programmed control code and UIs while standing in a small shipping container floating on a tidal platform in the middle of a Scottish estuary ( https://sustainablemarine.com/plat-i https://sustainablemarine.com/plat-i ); and more recently, learned how to do mean-time-between-failure analysis for an industrial Ethernet network that needed to live at the bottom of the sea with ten-year maintenance intervals and a >£10,000 bill to bring it up for component replacement.