Homebuilt ROVs Forum

Nice work .do you have engineer background?
Those proppelars are very heavy though.why brass and not plastic?
I have a good idea for lighting for you if you want
Always good to see a fellow norwegian.keep up building rovs.

Looking for a digital depth gauge .so i can sit and control the rov and seeing actual depth.
I can use a analog one in front of the camera,but was hoping to avoid that.
Any ideas?

Im wondering ho much lumen would be enough? I made a settup of 4 led 12v bulbs and connected to a battery.glued all joints and watertested it .works fine.but one of these give out 120 lumen.so all in all i have 480 lumen.is this enough?anyone? Leds looks to be the way to go.one bulb takes 250 mili a...

Thanks for posting my video.i have tried to upload pictures.wich i made of the whole building process.but they were to big ,so i resized them 70% still to big.i guess i just have to learn more computer stuff.anyway thanks

My rov is very back heavy.actually back heavy and to the right.
Should i compensate with weights or should i add more floaters?

Homemade rov norway . On youtube

So what do you guys think of my rov.this whole video thing is new to me but.i would like some constructive critism.what did i do right.and wrong.

Cool motor housing.and yes those thrusters should work just fine.

In my project i used the 1100gph rule pump.wich is very strong for the size. I converted it into thrusters with 50mm propellars. In my rov i have 6 of those. And two running simoultanesly every time i flip a switc. Converted to thruster ,one will give out ca5 amps. More than enough for lets say your...

Have anyone heard of bucaneer 3d printer on youtube.they sell them for 350 dollars.
Are they any good?