Homebuilt ROVs Forum

I picked up a smaller video camera housing to use as the rear pressure chamber. My thought is to have a secondary battery bank back there, to better distribute battery weight. Also have an inexpensive milled Robot arm gripper on the way. My plan is to pot the electronics board of the servos in epoxy...

I sent them an e-mail, we'll see what happens. It still has fewer servo outputs than I'm going to ideally want. The X3 one seems closest to that so far. I see various ROV's out there with similar control setups and robot arms and whatnot, so there has to be something out there as a control setup tha...

I'll have to track down that Asian one. The X3 one looks like it will at very least do everything the OpenROV one will do out of the box, and I do read a little rusty college German, so that might be the way I end up going. I'm planning on a 3 tiered control board mounting platform in the primary pr...

So I'm building this here ROV thing, and I'll at some point need a controll system for it. I'd kind of rather use something already built just to minimize the electrical tinkering needed. I'm ok at that, and I have 2 Arduino based 3d printers, so I am familiar with the setup processes for such contr...

The 8" tube is only 12" long. I've seen ROV's with 2 foot long 4 and 5 inch tubes that seem to work well, so I'm hopeing that won't be too much of an issue. Especially once it is 3/4" full of batteries and electronics. I'm planning on using a LEMO watertight fitting for the cable pass...

Hello everyone! I'm Tim. I've always been fascinated about Remote operated vehicles, and I have a couple of 3d printers. So, I've decided to build a moderate sized ROV that can be produced by a larger format (12 inch bed) 3d printer, and more importantly, offer the design files to other people so th...