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Would you entrust your DSLR to this diy underwater enclosure?
Next time you head off on that underwater adventure take your camera along with you. [Jkcobabe] shows us how to build a waterproof camera enclosure using just a few components. The box is meant to be...
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Two generations of ocean-going ROV
[Eirik] wants to help inspire others to take on big projects to he sent in a link to his ROV project. He started it about one year ago and the image above shows the first generation. After the break...
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Water glider prototype
[Byrel Mitchell] wrote in to share some details on this water glider which he has been working on with his classmates at the Nonlinear Autonomous Systems lab of Michigan Technological University. As...
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High voltage ROV adventures
[Eirik] wrote in to share the build log for the third iteration of his underwater ROV. The first two project were completed and tested (you may remember reading about it back in January), but both had...
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Retrotechtacular: Submarine Cable Splicing is Serious Business
Really. As this wonderfully narrated talkie picture from 1939 will attest, keeping even one drop of water from penetrating undersea cables is of the utmost importance. How do they do it? Many, many...
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THP Hacker Bio: Rusty Jehangir
[Rusty]‘s project for the Hackaday Prize is extremely ambitious. He’s planning on sending an autonomous craft across the ocean, from LA to Hawaii, a distance that will end up being well over 2,500...
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A Compact Underwater Vehicle: The Nanoseeker
The Nanoseeker is a compact underwater vehicle in a torpedo-like form factor. [John] designed the Nanoseeker as completely enclosed vehicle: both the thruster and the control fins are all housed...
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Naviator Drone Uses its Propellers to Fly and Swim
Rutgers University just put out a video on a “drone” that can fly and then drop into a body of water, using its propellers to move around. This isn’t the first time we’ve covered a university making...
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Devilishly Advocative: Microsoft Heats Ocean; Builds Skynet’s Safe Haven
Have you heard that Microsoft is testing underwater data centers? On the surface (well, actually on the ocean floor) it’s not a bad idea. Project Natick seals a node of servers in a steel pipe for an...
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Leg Mounted Beer Bottles for Underwater Propulsion
Sitting on the beach, finishing off a beer one day, [Rulof] realized that if he put a motor in the beer bottle with a propeller at the bottle’s mouth, he could attach the result to his leg and use it...
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Shipwreck Exploration Vessels Fit in Minivan; Stream to Internet
Having to work away from the convenience of a workshop can be tough. But it’s sometimes unavoidable and it always means planning ahead. When the work area also happens to be 150m under a lake’s...
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Highlights From Robotic Shipwreck Exploration
DIY Research Vessel in use, while ROV is busy below. [Source: NYT]OpenROV shared the results of their June 2016 underwater expedition to locate and robotically explore the wreck of the S.S. Tahoe,...
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It’s Not a Bridge, and Not a Tunnel. Or, Maybe it’s Both?
The gist of the idea is to suspend an underwater tunnel from floating pontoons. By the time you finished reading that sentence, you probably already had a list of things in your head that seem to make...
View ArticleGentle Electric Eel
It’s no shock that electric eels get a bad rap for being scary creatures. They are slithery fleshy water snakes who can call down lightning. Biologists and engineers at the University of California had...
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Open Source Underwater Distributed Sensor Network
One way to design an underwater monitoring device is to take inspiration from nature and emulate an underwater creature. [Michael Barton-Sweeney] is making devices in the shape of, and functioning...
View ArticleDIY Submersible Aims for Low Cost, Ease of Operation
If you’re like us, a body of water is a source of wonder and awe. The wonder comes from imagining what lies hidden below the surface, and the awe is from the fear of trying to find out and becoming one...
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[Festo’s] Underwater Robot Uses Body-Length Fins
[Festo] have come up with yet another amazing robot, a swimming one this time with an elegant propulsion mechanism. They call it the BionicFinWave. Two fins on either side almost a body-length long...
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Underwater VR Offers Zero Gravity on a Budget
Someday Elon Musk might manage to pack enough of us lowly serfs into one of his super rockets that we can actually afford a ticket to space, but until then our options for experiencing weightlessness...
View ArticleFlexible PCBs Make The Fins Of This Robotic Fish
We love a little outside-the-box thinking around here, and anytime we see robots that don’t use wheels and motors to do the moving, we take notice. So when a project touting robotic fish using...
View ArticleBreathing Underwater Using Wind Power
As hackers, our goal is to reuse something in a way in which it was not intended and [Rulof Maker] is a master at this. From his idyllic seaside location in Italy, he frequently comes up with brilliant...
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