This is sweet. The more i see these thingds the more i want to build one. Keep up the good work

P.S. FIRST POST!!!!!!!!

Posted at 11:12 am on Oct 30th, 2005 by stewvert91

I’m dying to put one of these together. Looks awesome. I want to make mine deployable from a kayak, so I also need a waterproof control box and viewer. Maybe I can seal up an old Palm or Jornada.

Posted at 11:26 am on Oct 30th, 2005 by Mike

woah. nice big ad.

Posted at 12:47 pm on Oct 30th, 2005 by alex

I have been involved with this type of thing for years!! There is even a national competition (last year held in NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Lab!) every year! And you can even see the underwater battle-bot type of competition sponsored by the Discovery Channel a few years ago called Depth-Charge. Here are some great links to this kind of thing:

GREAT book on how to build these things:
Harry Bohm & Vickie Jensen
Build Your Own Underwater Robot and Other Wet Projects
Westcoast Words, 2003.
ISBN 0-9681610-0-6

National Competition:
http://www.marinetech.org/rov_competition/index.php

Discovery Channel Depth-Charge, Team-MATE’s site:
http://www.team-mate.org

Posted at 5:18 pm on Oct 30th, 2005 by iChop

I know it’s off topic, but did the site just die for a minute??

Posted at 6:23 pm on Oct 30th, 2005 by Sp3cial Person

it better have not! but just in case here is a mirror.
http://www.rollette.com.nyud.net:8090/rov/

thanks to all you hackday day readers I have gotten so much email about my railgun and now this.

I plan on redoing it a bit over the winter, and next year will be all that much better. I got a few of those cvs camcoders now too and plan to make spots to put them in on all side for extra footage to review. as well as adding a floting serial gps bouyie so if I find something cool I can go back to the same spot.

Posted at 7:15 pm on Oct 30th, 2005 by Jason

it better have not! but just in case here is a mirror.
http://www.rollette.com.nyud.net:8090/rov/

thanks to all you hackday day readers I have gotten so much email about my railgun and now this.

I plan on redoing it a bit over the winter, and next year will be all that much better. I got a few of those cvs camcoders now too and plan to make spots to put them in on all side for extra footage to review. as well as adding a floting serial gps bouyie so if I find something cool I can go back to the same spot.

Posted at 7:19 pm on Oct 30th, 2005 by Jason

really simple one, using legos
http://www.mbari.org/education/internship/01interns/01papers/winter.pdf

Posted at 7:24 pm on Oct 30th, 2005 by weirdguy

Nice pics. I was just disappointed by the lack of how-to-do-this-you-poor-slob-with-no-imagination, since I am also keen to have a whack at an ROV. Hopefully he will do a detailed page up when it’s all finished. I like the bilge pump idea; maybe some diagrams of placement in this model would help us!
Nice fun hack.

Posted at 5:15 pm on Oct 31st, 2005 by JDog

actually i find the simplicity and the ablity to add so many features quite interesting about these bots, but my one problem is the wire running to the camera, anyone have any thoughts on a wireless camera, with some decent range?

Posted at 1:48 am on Nov 2nd, 2005 by bla

I added a video up on the site of one of the trips, the only thing we really saw was some fish. http://www.rollette.com/rov

Posted at 9:52 am on Nov 8th, 2005 by Jason

im not totally sure, but i think this was in Popular Science in 2006. kind of off topic, but just FYI.

Posted at 8:17 pm on Apr 25th, 2007 by Tony

You are right it was in Popular Science after this article. I am a daily Hackaday reader and have been for a long long time, and I was very happy to have it posted here.

Jason Rollette

Posted at 9:34 pm on Aug 8th, 2007 by Jason Rollette

DEAR SIR AND MADAM,

NOW WE ARE A SMALL GROUP DIVER IN VIET NAM . THE ROV IS VERY PLAY A KEY ROLE IN OUR SURVEY, SO IT IS VERY EXPENSIVE, COULD YOU HELP ME TO FIND A GOOD PRICE ABOUT THE ROV. WE NEED IT TO SURVEY THE HULL OF VESSEL.

THANKS AND BEST REGARD

Posted at 7:20 pm on Feb 25th, 2009 by Trinh Dang Giap