Homebuilt ROVs Forum

With all the incredible ideas and tech your working on it would be a shame to limit yourself to working in fresh water. Salt water stops rf cold. You could try magnetic induction communications like divers use for comms between eachother. Great stuff your working on I envy your electrical engineerin...

I want to run my rov with a standard 2.4 ghz rc transmitter with the help of an antenna bouy. I would like to add more functions to my rov but I am running out of channels and I am not ready to go ardino unless it can easily fill this small role in my system. I would like to use a swich to change mo...

What a beast! Must be nice not having to work with cramped spaces. How do you seal / access to the insides?

Perfectly good juice bottle what a waste

Why the need for sutch powerful thrusters? Smaller motors allow you to use rc hobby parts for kort thrusters and are more efficient. If this vessel is designed for waters without current and there is no extreme time limit for the mission you could save amps and money. As for retrieving an object try...

I feel like there is very little talk on the forum about ways to seal your rov to keep water out but remain accessible for maintenance repair upgrades ect. I am planning on using rubber pipe couplings to mate equal diameter sections of my hull. They rely on hose clamps to work so I bought a torque w...

Doesn't your pressure cooker have an overpressure blow-off valve on it already? If not you could install one where the pressure gauge was if you remove it. Not doing much good outside your hull anyway.

I'm about elbow deep into a similar path with my rov/sub and I can tell you there are some challenges going that route. If you are going with an umbilical and many functions at depth use adino this article is a great resource http://m.spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/hands-on/build-your-own-undersea-robo...

What killed the shark? Electrocution?

Turns out mag light makes a rechargeable ni-cad for their flashlights and the 6volt 4ah ones can be had for around 20 bucks. You can also find the same batterie in emergency power supply for flurecent lights if you can get to a junk yard. Find 2 and you have your 12 volt system with 8ah of capacity....