ArduROV 3

[ArduROV]

After a long period of practicing other hobbys, working and a lot of family time I was able to finish my third homebuild ROV.

My new ROV has some new features:
- 6-thruster design for lateral movement
- very small and easy transportable in one case
- one axis gimbal for camera movement and compensation of pitching the ROV
- easy to handle electronics
- and a lot more...

some pictures:






In the next weeks I will try to post some Videos.

[Ian MacKenzie]

Nice! Do you have any build pictures?

[ArduROV]

I have just a few pictures. I forgot to take more pictures during the build process.

First my first 3D printed thruster.


The frame is made of polypropylene and a few stainless steel bolts


A lot of printed propellers before testing


The 3S3P LiIon battery before potting


..and after.


one of the hull penetating cables before potting


the WTC caps were made with my lathe


I will post a few more detailed pictures of the ROV to show you a little bit more.

PS: Today a awsome test in the baltic sea up to 12 m depth

[bigbadbob]

Looks very professional ArduRov.
Looking forward to hearing more about it.
Do you use 2 arduino's? one topside and one sub side?
Also what comms protocol do you use?

[ArduROV]

Is this answering your question?

[bigbadbob]

Yes, perfectly thanks.
I also use an on screen display (modified minimosd, basically a simplified arduino and osd chip on one tiny board.) to bring my sensor data up, it saves me a couple of tether cores. I get away with six cores total.