{"id":755,"date":"2020-11-18T20:34:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T20:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rumblefishrobotics.com\/?p=755"},"modified":"2020-12-20T15:41:57","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T15:41:57","slug":"homebuiltrovs-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rumblefishrobotics.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/18\/homebuiltrovs-com\/","title":{"rendered":"HomebuiltROVs.com"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This isn\u2019t out work, but it was so inspirational for us we thought we should hang a lantern on it.&nbsp;(Stephen was nice enough to let us use pictures of his work here, but go check out his site &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebuiltrovs.com\/seafox.html\">homebuiltrovs.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rumblefishrobotics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/seafoxretrofit5-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-756\"\/><figcaption>Stephen Thone&#8217;s Seafox Retrofit<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The book <a href=\"https:\/\/westcoastwords.com\/build-your-own-underwater-robot.html\">Build Your Own Underwater Robot, and Other Wet Projects<\/a> was first published in the 1980s kindling an interest and love of the underwater world in generations of future scientists and engineers. A reprint of the book is totally worth tracking down to read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However we didn\u2019t encounter the book first, we encountered the designs in it on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebuiltrovs.com\/seafox.html\">homebuiltrovs.com<\/a>.\u00a0The Seafox ROV is their take on one of the designs from Build Your Own Underwater Robot. They site even documents a round of changes based on fixing pain points encountered during the ROVs use.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery aligncenter columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rumblefishrobotics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/seafox2.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"757\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.rumblefishrobotics.com\/?attachment_id=757\" class=\"wp-image-757\"\/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rumblefishrobotics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/seafox1.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"758\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.rumblefishrobotics.com\/?attachment_id=758\" class=\"wp-image-758\"\/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-caption\">Seafox ROV<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Frankly, getting started building underwater robotics is terrifying. It shouldn\u2019t be, but there are all the issues of land-based robotics \u2013 combined with the ever-present chance of a leak ruining months of work. For autonomous drones there is always the possibility of loosing your work forever.&nbsp;It can be daunting, especially with expensive drones. The Seafox was one of those designs that was just so cool it got us building anyway. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our very first underwater robotics projects were actually us looking at the Seafox and saying &#8211; how could we update that design now that 3D printers make making custom parts possible. Sites like this did a lot to finally get us making &#8220;wet projects&#8221;, so we thought it would be good to point people that way. If you are thinking about building underwater electronics checking out their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebuiltrovs.com\/howtos.html\">how to page<\/a> is a must.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This isn\u2019t out work, but it was so inspirational for us we thought we should hang a lantern on it.&nbsp;(Stephen was nice enough to let us use pictures of his work here, but go check out his site &#8211; homebuiltrovs.com. The book Build Your Own Underwater Robot, and Other Wet Projects was first published in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rumblefishrobotics.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/18\/homebuiltrovs-com\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;HomebuiltROVs.com&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others-work","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rumblefishrobotics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rumblefishrobotics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rumblefishrobotics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rumblefishrobotics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rumblefishrobotics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=755"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.rumblefishrobotics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":767,"href":"https:\/\/www.rumblefishrobotics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions\/767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rumblefishrobotics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rumblefishrobotics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rumblefishrobotics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}