Homebuilt ROVs Forum

Hey guys, The LED MR 16 style bulbs from allelectronics.com seem really good, 175 lumens for .4 amps (1/4 of the draw of a halogen MR 16 means less voltage drop) for 8 dollars. http://www.allelectronics.com/make-a-store/item/LFL-11/12V-4W-LED-FLOOD-LAMP-34-DEG.NW/1.html Another good option seems to ...

On Hercules we have two parallel lasers mounted ten centimeters apart on top of the main camera. This gives us an idea of where the camera is pointed but are more there for scaling things by taking a picture with two laser dots that we know are ten centimeters apart we can measure the image and find...

Sounds like you need either a grab sampler or a piston corer http://www.rickly.com/as/bottomgrab.htm A grab sampler gets you sample of the sediments but disturbs it. A piston corer would be fairly simple to make (its pretty much just pushing a pipe into the bottom) and both could get you a sample pr...

Hey Guys; I am an Ocean Engineering student at the University of Rhode Island and I spent last summer as an Argus Pilot on-board the E/V Nautilus working for Robert Ballard and the Institute for Exploration http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/technology/subs/hercules/welcome.html I have experience with bo...

SeaBotix makes what is probably the best thrusters for homebuilt use www.seabotix.com These will run you about 600 USD a piece If you are interested in magnetic coupling you might want to check out this paper http://www.marinetech.org/rov_competition/pdf/UWM_Technical_Report_2007%20Final.pdf Looks l...