Cutting Steel Disks for TriPod frames
We have a steel disk that creates a bit of a flange on the bottom of each hub on our floating TriPod bases. The hub is what we call the center spar where the three outriggers are welded together. This “caps off” the bottom of the hub and helps seal everything up while giving us […]
Preparing the Outer Spars
We have been making some strong progress on the second and third floating bases here at the factory. We are back with Grant to take a look at two of the outer spars that will eventually become part of those bases. These four-meter tall spars will be mounted to the end of the outriggers and […]
Smart Tablet Design
All of the Ocean Builders homes will be fully-equipped smart homes so we wanted to have a functional yet aesthetically pleasing way to control everything no matter where you are in your home. While you will be able to access the home automation app from your smartphone, these tablets will be mounted in different parts […]
EcoPod Engineering Room Layout
We are back with our Omer for an overview of the layout of the engineering room in the basement of the EcoPod. Omer designed this layout to fit all of the equipment that we will need to run the EcoPod. The ceiling in this basement is only 1.1 meters tall so everything had to be […]
Recycling Sandblasting Material
Sandblasting is a very important part of our production process here at the Ocean Builders factory in the ever-humid Panama. Our steel develops a layer of surface rust pretty quickly so we have to remove that layer of corrosion so that when we apply our surface protectant, it will be applied directly to bare steel […]
Self Connecting Platforms
One of the limiting factors of living on the water is that your space is much more limited on land. You don’t have a yard that your kids can play in or that you can host a party in because your “yard” is the ocean. While that is a limit in one aspect, it opens […]
Aerial Tour of the Factory
We wanted to use our drone to show you around and give a bit of an aerial tour of the Ocean Builders factory so that you can see how things are laid out and better visualize what you see in the blog posts from the factory. Our factory is located in Linton Bay, Panama so […]
Detailed Plans for EcoPod Layout for the Engineering Team
Here we have Grant giving us a pretty cool inside-look at something that hasn’t been shown to the public yet – the engineering CAD drawings and schematics for the EcoPod that our engineering team uses. This computer program allows us to look at each individual piece and move or hide them so that we can […]
Variable Buoyancy and Ballast for Floating Pods and other Structures
One of the challenges with building a floating home is the need for variable buoyancy and adjustable ballast. On boats and ships, this process is fairly simple since it is basically just a matter of making the boat sit at the right level in the water. However, with a home, especially one sitting on a […]
Admin Dashboard Development Overview
In this post, we will dive deeper into how the admin dashboard is being developed and how it is deployed using AWS services. We will also take a look at how the Brain Computer that is in each Pod communicates with our cloud servers as well as how past data can be seen by the […]
Basement of EcoPod
Grant is back with another factory update from the Ocean Builders factory here in Panama. This is a cool one as we have been working on getting the EcoPod prototype put together. This has been the summation of about six weeks of work but things are coming along nicely. We ran into a few hiccups […]
Ocean Builders Admin Dashboard First Look
Although it is still a work in progress and there are still many features to be added and polished, we are ready to share an early version of the Ocean Builders admin dashboard.The admin dashboard will allow Ocean Builders staff to oversee the status of the SeaPods, EcoPods, and GreenPods that are deployed and will […]
Rotating Pod
One of the cool ideas that we wanted to add to our homes is the ability to rotate the home automatically or manually in any direction that you would like. One of the drawbacks of traditional homes that are on land is that once that home is built, it’s not going to move. So if […]
Underwater Room Windows!!!
Grant Romundt Design underwater room
We have spent the last two planning and designing an underwater room that would of course be beneath the surface of the water. One of the biggest challenges with doing anything underwater is dealing with the water pressure. As you get deeper, the water pressure quickly increases so having a robust structure is crucial.The best […]
Installing Motors on SeaPod Push Boats
Grant is back at the factory with another update on our new-to-us workhorse boats that we will be using to push SeaPods on the TriPod base through the water. These boats will act like tugboats to help get the SeaPods to their correct locations since the SeaPod itself won’t have a drive system.One cool thing […]
Bulletproof Pod
Here at Ocean Builders, we are creating something totally new that the world has never seen before. That means that along the way, we are constantly experimenting to see if there is a better method or a better option that we could use in our design. One of the ideas that we had was to […]
Front Door Automation
Keeping with the theme of automating the simple tasks in the SeaPod, the front door will be able to easily be locked and unlocked through the SeaPod home automation app. We want coming home to be simple and easy so we made a system that will allow you to unlock your front door with the […]
Scouting GreenPod Locations
Grant recently went on a hike through the jungle here in Panama to scout out some potential locations for our GreenPod which will essentially be a SeaPod that is on land. We know that not everyone wants to live on the water and we feel that our design has a ton of benefits over traditional […]
Drone Tour of where SeaPods will be placed
Here we have a short drone tour that shows where we will be deploying the first SeaPods here in Linton Bay, Panama. As you can see, this is a picturesque little corner of the world that we feel is a perfect place to live. From the deep blue water to the lush green mountains in […]
Unboxing Electric Surfboard
Grant Romundt Lifestyle
What’s the point of living on the water if you don’t take the time to enjoy it? Especially in a floating home like the SeaPod, you will have easy access to the sea for things like paddleboarding, kayaking, or swimming. For those who want to add a little bit of speed to their water activities, […]