Tag ROV

Adeept vs Navigation Raspberry Pi Hats

ADM133 Adeep Robot shied Front

I have an Adeept Robot HAT, but the Blue Robotics BlueOS works natively with the Navigation hat (it’s probably pedantic, but neither of these two hats meets the requirements of Pi Hats). I was looking to see what the functionality…

Camera on a Raspberry Pi

Mess of wires that makes up my test setup, The two cameras, the Adeept Robot HAT for Raspberry Pi, and the Servo that I am testing with.

In my post about getting Flask running as a service, I included a screenshot with a large dark area as the background. In this post, I will work on filling it with an image from a web camera, which will…

Running Flask as a Service

Flask - not a production server warning

On my ROV, I am running the Python web server Flask. I want it to start automatically when the Raspberry Pi starts. For this, I need to make it into a Service. Flask displays the following warning on startup. Stating…

Adeept Robot HAT for Raspberry Pi

An Adeept Robot HAT for Raspberry Pi being watched by my Lego Mars Rover

Subsequently to the Serial interface issues, I bought an Adeept Robot HAT from Amazon. I have been keeping an eye on it for a while. The schematics and example code for the Robot Hat are available to download, which means…

Another ROV for sale

Over on Facebook, Ed Vergalen is looking to sell a VideoRay Pro 4 Plus BASE ROV System for £29,950. Videoray Pro 4 Blueview sonar C130 Manipulator Hull Crawler Kit Lynn enhancing package Extended Tether Deployment System (TDS). Approximately 305 m…

Assembling the battery sledge

Cheap charger showing the USB socket

After the success of printing the sledge for my DIY ROV in the last post, It is now time to try and wire it up, I am using two of these Youmile 3S Battery Protection Board Modules, they claim to…

Transparent ROV frame

I have been working on my DIY underwater ROV (remotely operated vehicle) for a fair while. It is going to be an underwater robot, sometimes people call them remote controlled submarines. I have moved some of the development to my…