WII5 Site Launch and First Open-Source Release

Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

May 2026. This site goes live today, and with it the first open-source release of WII5 source material.

What’s public from launch:

Firmware — the AVR / ESP32 C++ control code that runs on every WII5 buoy, now mirrored at gitea.sh3d.com.au/Sh3d/WII5Firmware. The page carries code highlights and deep links into the repository.
Buoys catalog — every generation from WII1 through WII5, plus electronics, enclosures, test equipment, and the onboard data-processing host.
Data — pointer pages to the public Mendeley archives for SIPEX II, PIPERS, and JARE-61, plus the publications bibliography (including the 2014 Nature paper).
History — deployment-by-deployment log going back to the 2014 NIWA work that produced the seminal Nature result.

The rest of the WII repository family — earlier dashboards, servers, maths tooling, test rigs, data archives — is inventoried at Software → Other and is possibly available on request. None of it has been individually assessed for release yet (licensing, customer-specific identifiers, third-party dependencies all need looking at first). If something there sounds useful, ask and we’ll review it.

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WII5 Site Launch and First Open-Source Release

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