Homebuilt ROVs Forum

Welcome! Looks like you've made some progress on the build so far. I'm excited to see where it goes!

Welcome! Where in Ontario are you located? I do a lot of diving on LoTW (or at least did until the pandemic has kept us dirty Americans out).

2020 update coming in a little more timely! Primary areas of focus for this year were: • Primary floatation attachment method • Surface display brightness in the sun • Higher torque servo on gripper Primary floatation attachment method As I’ve mentioned previously, the current mounting solution leav...

I was thoroughly impressed with how well it worked. I know my LEGO creations never achieved that level of success lol.

Welcome aboard! There's a goldmine of information available in the forums here.

True story Bob! They are both fun but yeah I derive more enjoyment out of the designing and building I think. I like the idea of doing tons of dives but in reality it doesn't take long before I'm handing the controller to someone else to try. If anything I get more enjoyment out of reviewing the div...

Back with the 2019 update (accompanied by my usual tardiness) Primary focus for this year was increasing thruster motor longetivity. To that end, the following improvements were made: New bearings in thruster motors Potting thruster motor stators Secondary objectives were: Adding vertical articulati...

Not exactly what you are looking for but some additional context. The EasyTransfer library has a fair amount of overhead. To decrease latency, I had my best luck by paring down and limiting what controls and sensors were sent across the connection.

Welcome aboard! Looking forward to seeing a build thread!

Welcome aboard! This place is only as quiet as the people (not) posting things. There's a fair number of us around and active. This place is a gold mine of information to dig through, look through the build threads - http://www.homebuiltrovs.com/rovforum/viewforum.php?f=18 and ask questions when you...