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Practical ways to connect a physical object with a useful digital trail.
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Stormy Sailors Maker Lab
Practical technology, creative experiments, and useful things built in Edmonton.
Think Like a Captain.
Play Like a Pirate.
Featured projects
Experiments, systems and small tools made useful through careful iteration.
Hardware & software
The Tactical Pirate
A focused project space for tools, firmware, documentation and lessons learned.
Explore the projectWorkshop
Workshop Experiments
Objects, prototypes and practical tests that may become the next useful thing.
Visit the ShipyardShip’s Log
Notes from the workbench: what changed, what failed, and what comes next.
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Return to Sea — A Boat Called Intuition
A revised budget, a 1972 Grand Banks 32 in Victoria, an encouraging older survey, and plans for an independent inspection and sea trial. Could MV Intuition become home?
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Captain’s Log: The Shipyard Falls Silent
Captain Stormy calls a temporary stand-down across the Maker Lab while recovering from illness. The fleet is safe alongside.
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Return to Sea: Building Our Own Ship’s Bridge Simulator
A practical bridge simulator built around our existing Linux laptop and Raspberry Pi, with OpenCPN, Signal K and a custom Python vessel model. Here is what we plan to use—and why.
A maker lab for useful ideas.
Stormy Sailors is an independent workshop where practical technology, creative experiments and careful craft meet. Some projects become tools. Others become prototypes, notes or a better question for the next build.
About the Maker LabHave a useful idea?
Bring a question, a project or a problem worth solving.