I’m building a rather primitive ROV for a high school project, and I need some help on some aspects of it.
What type of camera should I use? I’ve been considering an underwater fishing camera like this one http://cabelas.com/cabelas/en/templates/product/standard-item.jsp?_DARGS=/cabelas/en/common/catalog/item-link.jsp_A&_DAV=MainCatcat20166-cat21400_TGP&id=0038764018297a&navCount=2&podId=0038764&parentId=cat21400&masterpathid=&navAction=push&catalogCode=IG&rid=&parentType=index&indexId=cat21400&hasJS=true. What are your opinions? I want a color video feed, and I already have a monitor, so I really just need a camera.
I also wanted some sort of indicator of how deep the ROV is. Are there any systems where there’s a sensor that could be mounted to an ROV that will send a signal to a display on the surface?
What kind of controllers are people using? I was thinking of just using momentary switches to activate different motors at different times to steer the vehicle. I know this is inferior to using a joystick or computer controls, but I don’t have any programming experience, and definitely can’t make a board to handle the signals.
Thank you for the help!
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