Homebuilt ROVs Forum

@TigerShark, Thanks very much, and like the idea for the plastic enclosures, will try that. The propeller is a 4 Blade 95mm OD boat prop I bought from "Cornwall Model Boats" and only modification I did was drilling increasing the through hole size to about 10mm and cut two small tags off t...

Bit of an update, Finished my writing part of the my dissertation just finishing up my HCV (Hull Crawling Vehicle). I have finally got to grasps with my electronics as well, I have ditched the Xbox idea as it is far to complicated for me, having had zero electronics experience before this it was a b...

@profesorul

It was all drawn and rendered using Autodesk Inventor 2013.

Sorry for taking so long to reply to everyone, with the Christmas period and other Uni commitments this was put a bit on the back burner although it is in full force now! m_g I have already drooled all over my laptop looking at the stuff that seabotix have, their ROV's are absolutely amazing, if min...

njs552,

Have you waterproofed the motors at all, for instance with epoxy?

Or are they just standard outrunner brushless motors?


Many Thanks

Tom

Think it will depend on the type of printer as well, I know a lot of fused deposition modellers use a honey come structure, with the actual faces of the part that is being modelled only being 0.1-0.5mm thick, although other printers like the old school 3D inject printers use powders and a resin to s...

Mike, Thanks for the reply, that program sounds like it does exactly what i am looking for. Does it work in the sense that if you rig the analogue sticks to the thrusters different amount of pressure on these means a different thruster speed? As in not simply on/off? I will definetly get in contact ...

Hi All, I am currently in my 4th year of Product Design Engineering at Edinburgh Napier University in Scotland, for my honours project (dissertation) I was given a project by my summer placement. The project is "The design of a Hull Crawling Vehicle and Production of a Representative working Pr...