Brave Puffin is a small, solar powered, long range, autonomous boat. It is 1.9 meters long, weighing 35 kg. Brave Puffin is designed to compete in the annual Microtransat Challenge in the non sailing, fully autonomous class - that is, to cross the Atlantic Ocean by itself.
Track Puffin’s “Gulf of Maine 2025 Roundtrip” test mission
| Last update | |
|---|---|
| Total distance, km | |
| Average speed - last segment, km/h | |
| Average speed - mission, km/h | |
| Battery, V | |
| Onboard temperature, C | |
| Onboard humidity, % | |
| Left motor current, A | |
| Right motor current, A | |
| Solar panel current, A | |
| Pitch | |
| Roll | |
| Distance to next waypoint, km |
Puffin 2024 is a younger, bigger brother of Puffin 2020, which was launched in July of 2020 and went MIA 2 months later.
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