Homebuilt ROVs Forum

I found your project very interesting. I am building an ROV with two Arduinos, using RS485 Shield on each Arduino. The subsea Arduino gets information from the depthsensor, Accelerometer and Compass and will transmit the values to the surface Arduino and this one displays on LCD. Your idea of using...

Hello Everybody, After few weeks of research, now comes the time of ordering ( got a very happy banker now.. :-D ) and assembling the ROV. It is also time to start a thread about the ROV project, we're running with a friend. No name yet, but it will come... ;-) From all the research I've done so far...

KR2_Diving wrote:Results are posted in the Thrusters Pages.
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Including links to videos and pictures.

Best of Luck to all the builders out there!

Ryan "KR2_Diving"

Thanks again Ryan!

Ok, I have been unable to find any sound data on what does and doesn't work for depth sensors. I would like to find a definitive answer. Ideally a few pictures and schematics to support. I am trying to avoid the fish finder method, as this is not as easy to integrate with an Arduino (unless I misse...

Hey All! Test results are in! Brushless motor ran in salt water just fine! I will post pics and details soon... but the results are pretty clear! No fireworks! (bummer i know...) Quick preview of results: Current Draw --------------- Medium: Full FWD : Full REV : MAX current Air: 0.77 : 0.77 : 1.47...

KR2_Diving wrote:well that settles it then! I know what i am doing this weekend. I am going to track down a fish tank, make some salt water, and test some Brush less motors!
I will post my results on here!

Thanks for doing those testing for us....

Regards
Wanderer

Hey there, This is what I found for the brushless: http://www.wattflyer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=41694 here, with an interesting solution: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/openrov/openrov-the-open-source-underwater-robot more about it here: http://openrov.com/forum/topics/seawater-vs-brushless...

Hey Ryan, Thanks for your answer and for offering your help, I will definitely get in touch with you when needed.... I had a look on your thread about your building progress, very interesting, can't wait to read and know more about it Hey Wanderer, I may be wrong, but I seem to think that running br...

Hello thegadgetguy, thanks a lot for your answer, very helpful, I really appreciate In regards to what shields would be best, definitely have a compass. The accelerometer may also be useful, to let you if you bumped into something. Unfortunately I'm not entirely sure how accurately you could navigat...

Hello Everybody, A friend and I are starting a ROV project. It is for underwater filming and will carry a Gopro camera for that and another camera for piloting, we're looking at a build with 6 thrusters as to give us the following movement: - Back and Forward - Up and down - turning (spinning) - Sid...