R&D Director Jeff Feddersen is an artist, musician, and engineer whose work has increasingly focused on sustainable energy and natural systems. One such work, EarthSpeaker, is a set of solar-powered acoustic sculptures currently under development for free103point9's Wave Farm in Acra, New York, with support from the New York State Council on the Arts. His robotic sonic sculptures, invented musical instruments, and software have been exhibited internationally at venues including the Lincoln Center, 7th Street Entry, the Soho Apple Store, the Walker Art Center, the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, and MixedMedia Milan. He has taught electronics, sustainable energy, and digital audio at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, where he was also a Resident Researcher, and he has previously worked for the NASA flight hardware developer Honeybee Robotics, the American Museum of Natural History, and Minnesota Public Radio.
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Field Researcher John Wells aka johnnygizmo is a photographer, sculptor, general contractor, and alternative energy enthusiast who spends summers off the grid.

Lab Super-Brain Dustyn Roberts is a robotics expert with a Masters in Biomechanics and Movement Science; Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering and a double major in Biomedical Engineering. Dustyn works for the Manhattan engineering firm Honeybee Robotics and is currently designing a drilling robot for interplanetary space exploration, has directed the assembly of a Mars lander subsystem, and is helping design a sample manipulation system for NASA's 2009 Mars Science Lander mission. Dustyn is likeable, relaxed, sporty, outgoing, and very smart, so much so she was recently featured on the BBC program "Battle of the Geeks."