Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “National Maker Faire: Exploring with Open ROV”.
Hi, i’m mark devink from make magazine and we’re here at the national maker faire at the university of the district of columbia. We’Re going to be posting a bunch of videos today, interviewing makers showing you what’s going on. If you happen to be in the dc area, make sure you stop by it is a gorgeous day out here and don’t worry, there’s plenty of shade in the in the tents and the buildings um. So one of the first people, i’d like to talk here is andrew from open rov. Can you tell us a little bit about open rov for those of you out there that don’t know what open rov is what it’s about, where it’s going? How do they get involved? Yeah sure so, open rov is a low-cost, open source underwater robot i’ll hold this up. It’S a fairly. It looks fairly simple, though it’s more complicated on the inside, it’s powered by a beaglebone black um and it runs an hd camera with a light board. It’S got on-board batteries for about two hours and it’ll dive too, depending on how well you build it. Uh it’ll dive from 75 to 100 meters, the deepest that we’ve had custom modded has gone to almost 280 meters, so they can go pretty deep.
We use them for just about anything. There’S some groups out there exploring shipwrecks with them. There’S been some divers that have them to follow their divers and keep tabs on everybody. A lot of people just recreationally want to do some.
Recreational robotics want to see what’s in their local water body, want to go dive in their local lakes and rivers and in their oceans. I actually had this one out in miami a couple of months ago doing a shark tagging study, so we were using the robot to follow, along with the drum lines that we were setting to see when the sharks were actually taking the bait on the lines to Reduce the amount of time that the sharks spent online, which reduces their stress and increases the chance that they’ll survive after they get tagged. Okay.
So, basically, to sum that up, you can detect sharks when you go to the beach. That sounds like something i want um. So if you’re unfamiliar with openrov or you want to learn more make sure to head on over to magazine.com and check it out, we’ve had them featured in the magazine, they’re they’re, always on our website. We love open, rov and thank you so much for coming to national maker faire and we’ll see at the next one. Thank you.
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