Homebuilt ROVs Forum

Astronaut wrote:That's amazing! I am building one as well for my Gymnasiearbete here!

Hey Astronaut!

Looking forward to some pics

/M

Here is my ROV, but it is a bit modified: http://homebuiltrovs.com/rovforum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=718 And some dives as well: http://homebuiltrovs.com/rovforum/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=700 Nice build! :) So you went for converted bilgepumps too and tp-cable My next upgrade will be a depth sensor...

Silver dollar wrote:Hi Zoomzky,
Nice to see someone from Sweden!

Snyggt bygge!

Tjena!

Tackar!

Kul med svenska ROV:are har du byggt en du med?

Lucas wrote:Looks awesome! Can you go into more detail and post more pictures? I want to see more of it!

Hi Lucas!

Just click link in first post. Will add more soon

Cheers,
/Z

Sharing my ROV build
Hopefully for some use for the ROV-builders out there

A buildblog can be found here https://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthr ... st36889077

nice and not that expensive. A fair bit more than windows compatible joysticks though. I'm using something similar to http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Wired-USB-Gamepad-Game-Controller-Joystick-Joypad-146cm-for-Windows-PC-Laptops-/251874879687?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item3aa4e9a8c7 If only I could ...

Good when it works (for a change) :) Nice joysticks in the video .. are they expensive ? Are they usb / windows compatible do you know ? Both axis on the joystick drive the same motor ? or was that just for testing the set up ? I found I needed to put a dead band in the middle of the joystick or th...

After a couple of evnings trying to figure why motor shield was acting weird I got it to work!! :) I did misstake using A0 and A1 for joypot. Didnt know it was used for sending switch data from motor driver. Produced very strange results :-/ Changed pins to A4 and A5 and suddenly i got a perfect smo...

Ah ok... The skid steering bit... I played with skid steer but decided as I will need a bow thruster anyway (for rotation when not going forward/reverse). I'm going to leave the heading and correction to the bow thruster. The skid steer will of course work but if you have a way to go and need to co...

That link looks like it goes to a steering wheel controlled tank. Am I seeing it wrong ? You are totally correct!! Its me not explaining as i should. :) What i mean with tanksteering...drive will be proportional like a tank When turning in one direction one motor will go forward and the other rever...