How Can We Open Source Exploring Our Oceans?

David Lang explains how he built his underwater explorer at TED.
David Lang explains how he built his underwater explorer at TED.
David Lang explains how he built his underwater explorer at TED.
David Lang explains how he built his underwater explorer at TED.

How Can We Open Source Exploring Our Oceans?

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Part 5 of the TED Radio Hour episode Open Source World

About David Lang’s TED Talk

David Lang became an amateur oceanographer by getting a network of ocean lovers to team up and build open source, low-cost underwater explorers.

About David Lang

David Lang is the co-founder of OpenROV, a community of citizen ocean explorers who build small remote-operated underwater robots. Lang is also the author of Zero to Maker and a 2013 TED Fellow.

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