Computer recovery Thursday evening, I discovered that the harddrive in the vehicle had died. Because of the uncertain history of the old drive, we already had a replacement drive on order; it should arrive early next week. Until then, we will be operating off of a spare that I had for a separate project.

I have spent all of today installing Gentoo on the new drive, and I intend to save a drive image as soon as everything works properly. We have restored all of the old functionality except for image capture. I am currently trying to get the capture software installed without stooping to installing X, but I will if I have to.

UPDATE: I have gotten the cameras to work; I will reboot the computer so that it's running off of wall power and grab a filesystem image so we don't ever have to go through this again.

While I try and get the computer sorted out, Wes, Danny, and a few others have taken the hull to make some final modifications (such as adding a kill switch). I took care of the depth sensor and Ethernet connection problems yesterday. Hopefully, we'll be back in the water tomorrow evening doing some testing. I will be back in the morning to do some finalization of the vision stuff.  ¶ kd5bjo @ 03:01