Here is the the new 3D View system computer. We are waiting for the new HD video input stuff

Here is the thruster cluster with the PVC funnels that Eddie make on the lathe!

We are still working on the code to operate the EVROV with a wireless game pad

San Diego Seabotix Day Three

Day three way started off with us going to San Diego City College to visit there AUV team. They are a club that meets once a week and they have entered for several years. We got some good ideas from them and they explained how the competition worked. We also learned about JAUS Interoperability Challenge Rules. There are major points awarded to team that use this format. We are planning on doing this. The San Diego team was very receptive to our ideas and suggestions. They took a long look over our ROV Amanda that we brought to show them.
Any way the night before we went to beach to have a barbecue of hamburgers and hot dogs with a few shrimps. All the photos are posted in the post two posts before this one. All in all it was a great trip and we learned a lot about what we need to do. The vision system still the big question, we will have to call Cornell again to go over possible solutions. Now we have to finalize our design and put together a sponsorship proposal and get going on the building.

Seabotix San Diego trip day 2

Today we got up and headed to Seabotix to meet with Don Rodocker and his team. We last visited Seabotix in fall of 2003 and the following summer four boys from Falcon Robotics beat MIT in the MATE national ROV championships. Now Seabotix is a multi-million dollar corporation and now we are hoping to repeat the pattern of success we had in the past. Its like we have come full circle.
We also visited with the Ibotics team, who are based at the University California San Diego. The team leader gave us a tour of their lab and some tips on building an AUV. He also gave us some tips about the competition. The pics of the days tours are the posting the day before this. Please use the cool Iris 3-D photo wall to check out the pics. We are currently getting ready to head the beach so we can do a barbecue and discuss the days events. Tomorrow we head to San Diego City College for a visit with their team.

Today we took off for San Diego to visit Seabotix, a remotely operated vehicle company. http://www.seabotix.com/
We are taking our best ROV Amanda named in honor of Amanda Baggs, to show Seabotix and hopefully demo it on the pier. We are here to do research about ROVs so we can design and build an AUV, an autonomous underwater vehicle, to compete in the AUVSI, a national competition sponsored by the US Navy. No high school ever won it yet...We will also be visiting UCSD an dthe AUV team and San Diego City College's AUV team. Here are the pictures we have so far. We are staying on the Navel base in San Diego. We will update with more pics tomorrow.

Here is presentation that describes the components of the Autonomous robot we will be building for Costa Rica.



Also here is the BOM

Copper Con!

Here was event where the team displayed there robotics prowes to ordinary civilians who delve in the Sci Fi