As we added components to the desired electronics in a Lanternfish we eventually hit a wall with the old electronics chamber size. Everything could be made to fit, but it was just a nightmare to assemble. The new chamber is deeper, creating a wider opening to work on the electronics, as well as creating room …
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Lanternfish – Buoyancy Neutral Base Plate
On every drone you have a mass budget. Every time a new component is added, that components weight as well as the weight any required new wiring and mounting hardware get added to the total system mass, and subtracted from the mass budget. The most recent changes to the Electronics chamber added a lot of …
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Lanternfish – Lamp Float
Lanternfish was designed to be extensible, and this float is our first accessory. The float’s buoyancy is a little over half a Kg, and it buoyancy neutralizes an underwater dive light like the one pictured here. We are using a $21 Suptig diving light from Amazon. It is supposed to be rated to 45 meters, …
First Lanternfish back from paint!
First lanternfish back from paint and ready to be stuffed with electronics.
Lanternfish Ready for Paint!
Latest Lanternfish test print and assembly seems like everything works. No clearance issues on assembly, and it looks ready for paint. Major issues with this design were increasing the float height, which in turn increased its buoyancy. The height of the legs was also increased, increasing the distance between the base of the float and …
Tiny ROV Mockup No. 2
In the second mockup of the tiny ROV the design grew significantly in size. The major driver of change between V1 and V2 has been adding a bunch of electronics that live inside the electronics chamber. (Electronics chamber is still being designed and is not shown here). By upgrading to using a raspberry pi zero W …