Hello all from Cornwall, UK
Posted: Sep 7th, 2016, 5:26 am
Hi All,
Just a quick introduction: I'm an electronics guy, who has been working with ROVs for 20 years. I have been involved in building, maintaining, upgrading and repairing several different types of ROVs over the years mainly for small UK based companies.
In recent years I 'upgraded' working in Norway for Subsea 7 and more recently Technip as a senior project engineer. However these roles were more office based and then supervisory when offshore so had no real hands on experience of the detailed workings of work class ROV systems.
I have a plan to use a small observational ROV for boat trips for punters to see wrecks and sea life in Greece, where we are relocating later this year.
I have had to teach myself C++ so as to be able to program two Arduinos for the mini ROV control system. I am very happy that I have that all working nicely, I have just put together the electronics bottle and frame using waste pipe bits and pieces! So I am almost there and looking forward to seeing how stable and easy it is to 'fly'.
Cheers
Steve
Just a quick introduction: I'm an electronics guy, who has been working with ROVs for 20 years. I have been involved in building, maintaining, upgrading and repairing several different types of ROVs over the years mainly for small UK based companies.
In recent years I 'upgraded' working in Norway for Subsea 7 and more recently Technip as a senior project engineer. However these roles were more office based and then supervisory when offshore so had no real hands on experience of the detailed workings of work class ROV systems.
I have a plan to use a small observational ROV for boat trips for punters to see wrecks and sea life in Greece, where we are relocating later this year.
I have had to teach myself C++ so as to be able to program two Arduinos for the mini ROV control system. I am very happy that I have that all working nicely, I have just put together the electronics bottle and frame using waste pipe bits and pieces! So I am almost there and looking forward to seeing how stable and easy it is to 'fly'.
Cheers
Steve