We had our preliminary presentation about EJA the other week as a part of the Hackaday Dream Teams initiative!

We were joined by Clarissa Redwine who is a fellow at NYU and very knowledgeable about design and tech Kickstarter campaigns, as well as Dr. Trippel from the Canada Department of Fisheries and Oceans who has been working with the ropeless fishing gear community, along with Majenta Strongheart and Giovanni Salinas from Supplyframe DesignLab.

During the presentation we cover the differences from v1 to v2, outline the testing considerations, and see a preview of the software. v2 will be released as open source, as was v1. More progress is documented here on our Hackaday.io page.

Through the discussion emerged an interesting point of how we will get this into the hands of fishers. There are advantages and disadvantages to either the Kickstarter or traditional approach. A pertinent example being the possibility of promoting illegal fishing through the accessibility of this device. Perhaps this might be getting ahead of ourselves before completing beta testing with a fisher.

Our next presentation is to be at the end of August. It will be a sprint to the finish line to get this device complete by the deadline!