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Old 01-29-2007, 01:39 PM   #1
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January 29, 2007: $300 Homemade spy sub



It's Neatorama collaboration Monday!



Dugg today is this homemade spy sub, which is documented on Popular Science.
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Some fathers and sons play catch. Electrical engineer Jason Rollette and his 12-year-old son Trevor are a little more ambitious. Hoping to explore the lakes and rivers near their Milwaukee home, they’ve built their own underwater remote-operated vehicle, or ROV. Controlled and powered by a laptop, their ROV can swim more than a quarter of a mile, to depths of 250 feet, while a home-surveillance camera sealed inside sends a live feed to the pilots onshore.


It has little lights on the front, so it can illuminate what the camera is looking at. It's controlled with a joystick and computer interface. The down side: a quarter-mile-long Ethernet cable. I guess wi-fi doesn't work underwater?

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Old 01-29-2007, 01:44 PM   #2
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Wait... just wait, the fascists in our govt will put a stop to this lil' hobby.
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Old 01-29-2007, 01:45 PM   #3
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I am impressed beyond all rational thought capacity. Also jealous.
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Old 01-29-2007, 01:48 PM   #4
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The down side: a quarter-mile-long Ethernet cable. I guess wi-fi doesn't work underwater?
Somebody needs to tell them about acoustic transponders.

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The technical details for making such a call have been in place for years. The three-person crew aboard the Alvin--submerged 2.5 kilometers below the East Pacific--communicates to the surface ship Atlantis via acoustic transponders, a type of underwater telephone. The phone on Atlantis is in turn connected to a satellite phone, which can buzz anyone on shore. To complete the sea-to-space link, scientists merely needed to have Atlantis call the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, where a high-powered dish transmitter speaks directly with the space station.
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Old 01-29-2007, 02:55 PM   #5
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Let's put one in Sundae Girl's bathtub!
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Old 01-29-2007, 06:09 PM   #6
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It will need a new attachment up front then...
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Old 01-29-2007, 06:34 PM   #7
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This guy has some serious time on his hands. If you go to his website check out the railgun he made
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Old 01-29-2007, 11:57 PM   #8
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Somebody needs to tell them about acoustic transponders.
Then where does the sub get its power?
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Old 01-30-2007, 03:36 AM   #9
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Then where does the sub get its power?
P.O.E.

Power Over Ethernet.
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Old 01-30-2007, 10:37 AM   #10
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Of course I'm not trying to send any info along with the power...
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Old 01-30-2007, 11:04 AM   #11
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Let's put one in Sundae Girl's bathtub!

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It will need a new attachment up front then...
... for the jungle safari...

TMI?
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Old 02-01-2007, 01:44 AM   #12
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Dayum!
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