On February 25th 2024 we had the annual SearchWing e.V. membership meeting. Nine club members attended the online meeting. The new elected board is: Chairman Philipp Borgers Board Julian Dorner Board Friedrich Beckmann Vincent Brückner left the board. Thanks to Vincent for all his work done for SearchWing as board member! René did an audit […]

Image: How a AI imagines technologies to help in maritime Search & Rescue Event on technologies for People on the Move States around the world are using a hodgepodge of surveillance technologies to counter unwanted migration. However, these tools can also be used to support refugees and asylum seekers: Small and large associations and many […]

The SearchWing summer camp 2022 took place from August 9th to 19th, 2022 on Helgoland. With the excellent support of the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), we were able to carry out flight tests at sea. We were a total of eleven participants from Augsburg, Berlin and Hamburg with six students from the Augsburg University of […]

We are happy to hold up a meetup in cooperation with Disruptionlab and Matthias Monroy on the topic of drones in the context of maritime Search-And-Rescue. The meetup will take place in our hackspace at Haus der Statistik near Alexanderplatz in Berlin. Feel free to join by following the registration link. Following is a copy […]

From September 20 to October 5, 2021 we did flight tests on the Sea-Watch 4 in cooperation with Sea-Watch e.V.. The tests were made on a transfer trip for a shipyard stay of the ship from Trapani in Sicily to Burriana in Spain. The drone did flight tests at various heights. The inflatable boat teams […]

After 3 weeks of hard work they are ready: The 4 Search-And-Rescue planes for the first mission on the Alan Kurdi from Sea-Eye . It was a tight schedule – with the team’s efforts we made it! The 4 planes are packed and are now getting shipped to the port where the ship is already […]

This year the CCC’s annual hacker meeting took place like last year in Leipzig. Like last year, we had our own assembly in Open Infrastructure Orbit – right next to related teams like Sea-Watch. We also gave a small lecture about our project and the current status, the lecture is available online: Hartmut Gieselmann from […]

We used the X-UAV Mini Talon for over two years now and have modified the components to adapt them to our requirements. On October 26th 2019 I have done the first fuselage milling experiment. The idea is to replace the fuselage with an own design and to keep the injection moulded wings and V-Tails. We […]

Petrosolius and Max organized the hackathon in Berlin to find solutions for finding boats in images with computer vision technology for civil search and rescue operations. They asked for help and more than 50 volunteers came to support SearchWing and have a good time with image processing and machine learning. Thanks everybody for coming and […]