ROV-1 Function Overview

I've been developing a small (8" x 8" x 12") ROV submarine called "ROV-1" to explore an underwater cave near where I live high in the mountains of Northern California. This is a video I took just after I completed building the tether for ROV-1 (July, 2010) and noticed some connection problems. I am currently working on a new ROV design that has a lot of improvements over ROV-1 (including a new tether system that is much more elegant). Best of all, I'm making the entire project open-source/ open hardware! For more information, visit OpenROV.com

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Science & Technology

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• OpenROV
• ROV
• Robot
• Submarine
• Exploration
• Telerobot
• Telerobotics
• Eric Stackpole
• Hall City Cave
• DIY
• TechShop

[sliv5sliv]

How did you water proof everything, I'm in the process of building one and I cant seem to get a tight enough seal around the propellers, are yours dc motors people tell me you can submerge them but I would rather not i'd like to keep everything dry seeing how I spend 150 on each electric motor.

[PYTHONsystems]

from where you bought the thrusters and what they called? if you built it yourself, provide me specs. thank you.

[soulreapernathaniel]

Have you made any more progress with your Rov ?