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I finished the last bit of machining and welding on
my BugEye rov last night... It was pretty interesting to see everything I had
been working on for the last couple months in modular form come all together as
quickly as it did. It almost worries me because it went too smoothly. BUT, I
tested the whole integrated unit in the swimming pool and it seems I have
excellent control of the ROV. Of course this is non moving water so the affect
of current wasn't there. I also wasn't able to go more than 6ft down, so my
preasure sensor didn't register a thing. (I ended up using a SPD100G
100psig)
Sunday I'm going down to rainbow springs for it's
first real open water test. If all goes well with that I'm going to head up
to destin and get on the boat out to the "hole" the weekend after this one to
test it for depth.
George Slaterpryce
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