As part of our OpenROV effort, we are using the Raspberry Pi as the core and the Raspi camera module as the sensor. First task is to get streaming video working!
Streaming video on the Raspberry Pi
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Our OpenRov Schematic
After some thought into our design, I drew up a schematic for Avi’s OpenROV. This reflects all the changes we are making electrically:
- Using waterproof boat ESCs and moving them from the e-chassis into the water
- Switching to Raspberry Pi from the Beaglebone
- Not using the OpenROV cape – we will drive the ESCs directly with the RaspberryPi using ServoBlaster
- Adding the MS5803-14b depth sensor – i2c interface, runs on 3.3v
- Switching to four 3S 2200mAh lithium polymer batteries from the cylindrical cells used on the OpenROV right now
- Using the RaspberryPi camera module instead of a webcam
A lot of changes! Here is the current schematic diagram. There are currently 11 wires passing through the bulkhead that have to be potted, which is much less than the current OpenROV mostly due to having the ESCs out in the water.
Updation Disaster
Today we hurried so much to get all the CAD done so we could lazer cut the acrylic but, while we were laying out the lazer cuter drawing we realized that the parts in the echassie weren’t up to date. Were not sure what to do because it looks like the creators of the open ROV haven published the CAD files for the updated version and instead just one huge lazer cutting file. So, we cant get just the echassie, leaving us only two options ether try to slice apart the lazer cutting files or try to design our own echassie.
ROV Hobby Parts
Hello I am Avi Moore writing about my mini submersible summer project. The submersible is an opensource project that was developed by two people that wanted to find some gold in a cave lake, they ended up not actually finding any gold but instead found themselves developing a new piece of technology. I got the idea to build the ROV because I read about the people that developed it in Make Magazine (http://www.makershed.com) and I was inspired to make the open ROV.