Homebuilt ROVs Forum

Hello,

I am already long planning on building my own ROV and a recent visit to the marine training facility which had a few ROVs lying about sparked my interested again. This time I decided that the winter is a good time to build it and summer would be an excellent excuse to use it in between dives. Jip I am also a diver (PADI instructor) besides my regular job in Finance/IT.
During the drawing of the ROV to many ideas popped up in my head so I hope that this forum can shorten the list a bit so the ROV actually might be build some day

Regards,
Fryslan76

Hey Fryslan76!

Welcome to the forum! Looking forward to watching your progress!

Be sure to ask lots of questions and contribute when you can!

have you already got some firm ideas as to what you want to build?

Ryan
"KR2_Diving"

Hi KR2_Diving and others,

Progress so far only in my mind and some raw drawings.

Plan is to start simple, just a major tube with a web camera a raspberry pi plus arduino on its own power supply. A UTP CAT 5 thether to the surface. And two skids which contain batteries to fire the 4 brushless motors. 2 for forward and backwards plus turning. And 2 pointed at an upwards angle for up and down and later als lateral correction.

Idee is that the main tube and the skids will be connected with a power wire running through the wet and thuse through the hull (scary). So a basic design with a lot of options to add more gadgets later on. Thanks to the arduino and raspberry pi.

The gui will be a website hosted on the raspberry with the camera view in in. Going to use a joystick/gamepad on the top side to drive the thing I think but still wondering about that bit.

Comments welcome

Wow! There's a coincidence. I also live in the Netherlands, and have been working along almost exactly the same lines for the last 10 months. I've not gone the web-control route, preferring a modified rc solution, though I do intend to live stream to the web using a raspberry pi and suitable camera as soon as they make one. I'll post a video later of the prototypes first manoeuvres elsewhere on the forum. It's using a security camera for now, but the infrastructure is ready for a pi in addition to the arduino that's there already.

Which camera are you going to be using? I'm waiting on the module they'll hopefully release in the new year.

He Mikec,

The Pi prototype camera is already finished they should be available in the near future in the shop. Just watched your footage ( nice ) and saw the lake name are you living near A'dam? I live near Amersfoort.
I got no RC stuff lying around and a lot of UTP cable and some spare laptops so that was an easy choice for me. Now building it is a different mather
Did just ordered an Uno with a servo board and 4 servo's to play around while i think about ESC and brushless motors.

Regards

Hi,

Welcome here, i know you from another forum i guess

Frank

Well I use this nick on several forums so that is very much possible are you thinking of DF?

fryslan76 wrote:Well I use this nick on several forums so that is very much possible are you thinking of DF?

that's the one!