Homebuilt ROVs Forum

Hi there, if you connected the left motor to channel 3 (throttle) and the right motor to channel 1 (aileron) assuming you have the radio in the correct mode (mode 1) the radio should be in ACRO model mode. then assign a mix, Throttle as master (CH3) with Aileron as slave, 100% up and down, with i th...

I actually love it. It makes sugru look like play doh!


Any idea of the shore hardness? We'd be looking at 70 ish for gaskets. Though for claw grippers, bump strips etc it looks the dogs danglies

i had my first dabble with cheap ebay LEDs and constant current drivers tonight.

it all worked out pretty well!

Thanks Silver Dollar the 3rd person view is a very cheap gopro/sj4000 copy, it seems to do the trick! A little mod was carried out tonight as my ROV light was just not cutting the mustard! So making use of some parts i'd ordered for my next ROV, i mounted 3x 3w LED's on thermoplastic as a mount. i d...

Hello, you're right i will change "nick" to "pitch". I've uploaded the ROV-CONTROL V3 Demo Download (.zip): http://www.rov-control.com/download/RovControl_Demo_Setup.zip Are you selling these? Get the X³-CONTROL including the ROV-CONTROL V3 license http://www.rov-control.com/sho...

First Dive with Manipulator,

Also first dive after upping the voltage of my thruster ESC's

Cheers

Bindo

Hi Guys,

Well the grabber was a complete success!!

Spent 2 hours at a previous dive site and managed to get a heap of junk out!

i'm becoming disappointed with my FPV camera though, deffo not enough contrast, i'll have to look into an alternative.

Cheers

Bindo

Well the grabber is an off the shelf, cheap and nasty ebay purchase. http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&id=191155010298&alt=web Then I took a servo, did away with the control board, and now I control the servo motor with a tiny brushed esc. The servo and gripper are mounted to a block...

Not so good! Don't give up!

On the ardunio, the serial pins need to be disconnected from your rs485 converters before it'll accept a new program!

Well it was in to the test tank tonight, testing out my manipulator.

It worked well, though my "test tank" isn't really big enough for a proper test

threw together a short video showing the tests