Cutting Out The Front Door Entrance
The front door for our homes will be located below the home on the center spar of the floating TriPod base. You will enter through the door and then walk up a spiral staircase which will take you right into the living area of the home. This is a quick video showing the process of […]
Protecting the Center Dock
Here is a quick video that shows how we protect the metal of the center dock from corrosion. This dock will go around one of the outer spars on the floating TriPod base. You can see two of these docks that are installed on our first floating TriPod base.The first step is to remove all […]
Finishing the Hot Tub Mold
We recently finished up the mold for the hot tub that will sit on one of the side spars of the floating TriPod base if you decide to add it. It is designed to have cushions around the edge to sit and then the hot tub itself will be in the middle. We won’t cover […]
Installing EcoPod Ceiling Supports
Now that the roof is in place, it is time to get working on the ceiling and everything that will go in between the roof and the ceiling. One crucial piece is the supports that will help hold the ceiling panels in place.We are making the supports in a grid pattern similar to what would […]
Underwater Window Frame near completion
We are excited to share that the window frame for the underwater room is nearing completion. This window will offer a 1-meter wide view from the underwater room out into the beautiful sea.The frame itself is made of steel and took about two and a half years to get from the first design to the […]
Cross Brace on TriPod Installation
This is a quick video showing how we install the cross braces that will give a little extra support and strength between the outriggers and the center spar on our floating TriPod base. The brace itself is made from a simple steel tube. We then have a template that we place on the tube to […]
Production Controllers
Our homes have so much technology and automation packed into them and each aspect needs an electronic controller to communicate between the software and the hardware. Many of the things that we are developing for the Pods have never been done before, so that required us to design, prototype, and produce our own controllers.These controllers […]
Quad Bilge Pump System
One of the most important safety features on boats and floating structures is the bilge pump. The bilge pump works by pumping water that is inside of the structure and putting it back into the ocean. While we can build our structures to be as watertight as possible, we still need to have bilge pumps […]
EcoPod Roof Ring Installation
This outer ring for the EcoPod roof is made up of 28 smaller sections which are then put together into four pieces made up of seven sections each. These smaller sections are much easier to manufacture than a larger section so this process worked out pretty well. We assembled all of the pieces on the […]
Hot Tub Manufacturing
Grant is back with another update from the factory. This time he is showing us some of the progress on the hot tub that will be an option to add to one of the three side spars on the floating base.The hot tub will sit on the top of the circular side spar, so naturally, […]
Fiberglass Sprayer Arm
The crew have been building a large arm that we can use with our fiberglass spray gun to help make the process go faster. This arm will be great for spraying large areas during production.A good example of how this will help during production is when we have to make the huge “bowl” for the […]
EcoPod Quarter Roof Section Installation Part 2
Part 2 of our process to get the EcoPod roof put together went fairly smoothly with only a few expected difficulties. Installing these roof sections was not easy and they take quite a bit of work to get properly fitted together, but we got the job done at the end of the day. Placing this […]
Fiberglass Spray Gun
Our homes are made primarily of fiberglass sections that are formed in molds. When we take those sections and put them together, we have to lay sections of woven fiberglass fabric out and then roll a resin on them to harden them. This is very time-consuming and can be difficult when working in tight spaces.This […]
EcoPod Quarter Roof Section Installation Part 1
This video shows the process of how we install the four quarter sections of the EcoPod roof. We made these four sections with a mold and finally started to put them into place. These pieces are large and cumbersome to deal with but with a bit of muscle and help from our telehandler, we were […]
Underwater Window Frame in Production
We have made some good progress since our last update on the underwater room windows. We have gone from designs to beginning to manufacture the actual window frames.These windows for the underwater room have to be incredibly strong to withstand the pressure of being underwater, and they have to be very precise to properly seal […]
Second Half Kitchen Floor Installation
This is a quick video to show how we are going about installing the second half of the kitchen/patio floor in our SeaPod prototype.We learned quite a bit after spending almost a full day installing the first half, so we attacked this one from a different direction. The first time involved a lot of manhandling […]
Attaching the EcoPod Roof
As we move closer to getting the EcoPod prototype finished up, Grant wanted to share a bit of the process of installing the outer ring of the roof. This roof is made of 28 sections which are installed together to make a big donut shape. Once the outer ring is in place we will install […]
Delivery Drone 11 – New Precision Landing System
Omer wanted to give us a quick visual demonstration of how the new infrared precision landing system for the delivery drone will work. This system uses an infrared beacon that emits a certain pattern of light that the receiver on the drone will look for and then lock on to.The beacon will be continuously emitting […]
EcoPod Bathroom Sink Area
Most parts of our homes are built by using molds built from 3D printed designs to shape fiberglass panels that we will then fit together. Some pieces, however, use a different method. One example of that is the bathroom sink area of the EcoPod.The video below shows the process of how we are making the […]
Installing the Center Dock
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After we finished protecting the center dock, it was time to get it installed on the center spar of our second floating TriPod base. We used our telehandler to lift the dock up and then like a giant game of ring toss, we had to get it around the center spar so that it could […]