I’d like to say hi to everyone and start getting involved with the forum. Here are some photos of my ROV build. I had hoped to have finished it by now but I’ve been away a lot with work and only now getting to back to the build. I want a heavy sturdy RoV and It will be a bit of a Frankenstein build - Openrov 2.6 and 2.7 based controls, T100 thrusters and hopefully some homegrown parts.
plan for now is to finish the build based on 2.7 parts using the 3 thruster arrangement. Long term will be:
to get the 4th lateral thruster integrated (not too sure how just yet)
bespoke control Case with integrated screen/laptop
The frame is very strong though I wish my skills had meant that I could have machined the frame myself but I actually had it CNC routed out of 12mm thick polypropylene by another company. Having said that, after using a router during the fitting of some kitchen worktop recently, I will be cutting out the tool skid myself and perhaps any future and slightly simpler ROV frames.
The CNC work was good but I had under estimated the result of routing 90deg internal corners. It left an 3mm radius on all the corners which I had to clean out manually on all the interlocking faces so the finish isn’t as clean as I’d hoped. A few design tweaks would simplify it a lot or use acrylic and laser cutting.
I got my openrov 2.7 control board in the post today so will hopefully make some more progress in the next couple of weeks but we’ll see- I’m getting married in 5wks so I’m told my time should apparently be focused on that and not the ROV!
Looking at the board I hoping (probably naively) to tie the lateral thruster in using one of the servo outputs and taking power from vert thruster board contacts. I don’t know much about electronics/programming as you can probably tell but doing the project to hopefully learn a bit more.
