Homebuilt ROVs Forum

I haven't got one yet but I'm on the brink. My kit works but the Hat would make it tidy and includes a little display for pre checks etc. If I get one and manage to figure it out to a good enough level to post on NPM then I'll let you know.

What about the pi sense hat ? There's no npm for it yet but it would make a lot of things neater and simpler....

The more failures you have the more expert you'll be when you get it :) I feel your pain as I'm an "expert" in a lot of projects. Just put all the stuff in a box and put it to one side. If in six months you've still lost all interest then get rid of em,,,but just think how far you've come ...

Good to know ..thanks for the tips...

Before you do anything else are you starting the thing with sudo -su ? You need to be root for Moki's install It isn't sufficient to do >>sudo node ***** as some files wont be available. I would recommend either writing or coping for the net a simple node.js example and see if that works ok.. then m...

Does anyone suffer from prop walk ?
I'm now looking for some 50 mm props as the main drive but only seem to be getting them in either clock wise or counter clock but not in matched CW/CCW pairs. Does this matter ??

An ad machine had attached it self to my PC and this site....still all clean again now. For completeness I've been looking at dead reckoning as well and I don't seem to find any favorable reports for it. Has anyone used this for their ROV and got decent results ? I've got 3 axis gyro, accelerometer ...

just me then with the pop ups. Its only this site though...hmmmm

I don't mind rock throwing (as long as they are little ones) :) healthy debate where folks are willing to state they think an idea is wrong and offer alternatives is where real progress is made... So nope no problems and keep the comments coming. I have done a fir bit of scuba in the past... I can s...

Thanks for your appreciation. It wasn't that much coding really I'm a complete nooby at html5 and the canvas element so if you've got experience then you'll find it easy...I'm quite impressed with what you can do with this canvas thing.. If you want the code to pick through tis free to anyone that w...