Hi here in Florida with over 10000 “lakes” large enough to hold a car, there are over 1500 vehicles in the lakes and about .5%-1% have a person in them. The vehicles are hard if not impossible to see them. If you used this to map the bottom, the data can be mined to find vehicles. One to save the environment of the lake and to solve 15 missing persons. Thank you for making this
❤ i like it. Very useful tool indeed and having more weight capacity would mean wind and waves wouldn't harsh it's efficiency as much ive described these as an option in many chats it's good to see them being built and tested
Cool project! 1. Your rudder mount causes a lot of drag! I bet you can get way better efficiency out of it if you don't drive a flat wall into the water 😄😄 Maybe just have a solid top bearing assembly and nothing at the bottom. Something akin to a semi-balanced rudder. Try to keep the bearings completely out of the water, just a rudder going down. 2. My tip is to get some DCM (Dichloromethane) it is awesome for PLA 3D prints you can "glue" parts together so easy, it is hand tight in a sec. to a min. (depending on the area you "glue") and it is basically as strong as the PLA it self if it fully dyes. I say "glue" because it is actually chemical welding (but nobody got time for that 😅) You need very little for welding, a bottle will last you a LONG time. Well I found many other uses for it too, because it is basically Acetone on steroids. It evaporates so fast and no stinky smell. So keep your bottle open as short as possible and use in ventilated area, well like all stronger solvents. PS: You can also dissolve PLA in it to make a PLA "resin"/glue :)
There’s a printed fairing to streamline the base of that flat motor mount part, probably not very obvious in the video. I don’t really have a need to glue any PLA parts together for this. My redesigned servo mount will be a monolithic PETG part.
I would love to see you build a custom 27Mhz digital transmitter for communication with boats 😃 because the currently available modules are limited by range, I think it would be better to select a CB frequency and make a custom radio transmitter and reciever, most probably use bit bashing protocol to send digital control signal... Good luck 🤞
@@xx_VP_xx Here's the files for the mold I used to build the hulls, I'll upload a complete assembly model once I verify my updates to the rudder linkage are working nicely: makerworld.com/en/models/592424#profileId-514076
Hi here in Florida with over 10000 “lakes” large enough to hold a car, there are over 1500 vehicles in the lakes and about .5%-1% have a person in them. The vehicles are hard if not impossible to see them. If you used this to map the bottom, the data can be mined to find vehicles. One to save the environment of the lake and to solve 15 missing persons. Thank you for making this
Nice build, neat project, thanks for sharing.
❤ i like it. Very useful tool indeed and having more weight capacity would mean wind and waves wouldn't harsh it's efficiency as much ive described these as an option in many chats it's good to see them being built and tested
Great project, good work! Love the little 'ooop' slip at the end, nice touch!
Boat ramps are slippery
Very nice. I was wondering when your upgraded autonomous boat would be ready. Worth the wait.
Thanks. Still plenty of improvements to make.
I think RCTestFlight would be jealous :-D
lol I’ve seen some of his projects, cool stuff
Cool project!
1. Your rudder mount causes a lot of drag! I bet you can get way better efficiency out of it if you don't drive a flat wall into the water 😄😄
Maybe just have a solid top bearing assembly and nothing at the bottom. Something akin to a semi-balanced rudder.
Try to keep the bearings completely out of the water, just a rudder going down.
2. My tip is to get some DCM (Dichloromethane) it is awesome for PLA 3D prints you can "glue" parts together so easy, it is hand tight in a sec. to a min. (depending on the area you "glue") and it is basically as strong as the PLA it self if it fully dyes. I say "glue" because it is actually chemical welding (but nobody got time for that 😅)
You need very little for welding, a bottle will last you a LONG time. Well I found many other uses for it too, because it is basically Acetone on steroids. It evaporates so fast and no stinky smell. So keep your bottle open as short as possible and use in ventilated area, well like all stronger solvents.
PS: You can also dissolve PLA in it to make a PLA "resin"/glue :)
There’s a printed fairing to streamline the base of that flat motor mount part, probably not very obvious in the video.
I don’t really have a need to glue any PLA parts together for this. My redesigned servo mount will be a monolithic PETG part.
Lady Bird Lake in Austin is looking a little green this time of year. I look forward to seeing your sonar data plots.
I would love to see you build a custom 27Mhz digital transmitter for communication with boats 😃 because the currently available modules are limited by range, I think it would be better to select a CB frequency and make a custom radio transmitter and reciever, most probably use bit bashing protocol to send digital control signal... Good luck 🤞
By custom transmitter, I mean using an LC tank circuit, or a crystal oscillator to generate the radio frequency.
Nice work I wish. Im build an bathymetry survey drone that has a sparkfun rtkgps module and salinity sensor
Interesting, maybe I’d switch to an rtk gps if I ever upgrade. Could be useful for very high precision imaging.
Are you willing to share your designs at all? Would love to build something like this.
GitHub link to code is in the description. I’ll probably upload cad soon too, might wait until I finish the rudder redesign though.
@@Clay-Builds Yeah the cad is what I was looking for :) Thank you for sharing everything you do. Keep up the great work!
@@xx_VP_xx Here's the files for the mold I used to build the hulls, I'll upload a complete assembly model once I verify my updates to the rudder linkage are working nicely: makerworld.com/en/models/592424#profileId-514076
@@Clay-Builds Amazing, thank you!
What depth sensor will you be using?
It’s a blue robotics ping2
is this legal??
Yes
Great project!
wanna sell?
Nice to see you here, Zivko! 😉
Nope
How to contact you?
I generally prefer not to be contacted directly
Looks pretty dangerous to other boaters; you need a visible warning flag. Its cheap to add.