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If you think your job sucks, be grateful you’re not this homebrew sewer inspection robot. Before anyone gets upset, yes we know what [Stargate System] built here isn’t a robot …read more Continue reading DIY Pipe Inspector Goes Where No Bot Has Gone Before
Until the 1970s, a very common method to dispose of unneeded munitions was to simply tip them off the side of a ship. This means that everything from grenades to …read more Continue reading Cleaning Up World War 2’s Legacy on the Seafloor With Robots
When a ransomware attack targets something like a hospital, it quickly becomes a high-profile event that understandably results in public outrage. Hospitals are supposed to be backstops for society, a …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: June 23, 2024
The projects featured on these pages frequently rule the air, the ground, the rails, and even the waves, but very rarely do they rule the deep. Building a submarine is …read more Continue reading 2022 FPV Contest: Turbo Super Submarine
Building an underwater remotely operated vehicle (ROV) is always a challenge, and making it waterproof is often a major hurdle. [Filip Buława] and [Piotr Domanowski] have spent four years and …read more Continue reading 3D Printed ROV Is The Result Of Many Lessons Learned
We doubt you could really live in [Pena’s] PVC submarine, but now the song’s stuck in our head anyway. Although the post is in Portuguese, you can get a pretty …read more Continue reading We All Live in a PVC Submarine
Do you have a hundred bucks and some time to kill? [Peter Sripol] invites you to come along with him and build a remotely operated submarine with only the most basic, …read more Continue reading Low Buck PVC ROV IS Definitely a MVP
Underwater Remote Operated Vehicles, or ROVs as they’re typically known, generally operate by tether. This is due to the poor propagation of radio waves underwater. [Simon] wanted to build such a drone, but elected to go for an alternative design with less strings attached, so to speak. Thus far, there …read more
Underwater exploration and research can be exceedingly dangerous, which is why remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) are so commonly used. Operators can remotely command these small submersibles to capture images or collect samples at depths which would otherwise be unreachable. Unfortunately, such technology comes at a considerable price.
Believing that the …read more
Continue reading Aruna: An Open Source ROV For Affordable Research
In Subnautica, players explore an alien underwater landscape with the help of a number of futuristic tools and vehicles. [Robert Cook] found himself particularly enamored with the large submarine you unlock towards the later parts of the game, so much so that he decided to build his own real-life …read more
Continue reading Scratch Built Subnautica Sub Explores the Pool