Getting Started with Bristlemouth

Here’s a summary and a set of links to help you get started with Bristlemouth. As the community and standard grow, so will these pages, so stay tuned.

What is Bristlemouth?

Bristlemouth is a specification that defines how subsystems should physically connect, communicate, and distribute power in modular marine systems. Bristlemouth is a full-stack physical connectivity standard, akin to USB for desktop computing, but for sensors and robots in our oceans.

For a high-level overview of how Bristlemouth works, click here.

To dive deeper, see The Bristlemouth Standard Specification in this wiki.

The repository

All open source software and hardware implementations of Bristlemouth are hosted on GitHub here.

Community and forums

Join the Bristlemouth community by jumping into the Community Forums.

To get started using Bristlemouth today

• Apply to the Bristlemouth Pioneer Program to receive a Dev Kit: https://www.bristlemouth.org/pioneer.
• Check out the Dev Kit documentation at Development Kit User Guides.

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