I built an ROV to solve missing person cases

Post by Natsu » Tue, Jun 11, 2024, 8:42 PM UTC

cryptonector wrote: post #23

dang wrote: post #2

As you can see, this is long: https://suanto.com/2024/06/06/the-time-I-built-an-ROV-02/ https://suanto.com/2024/06/06/the-time-I-built-an-ROV-03/ https://suanto.com/2024/06/06/the-time-I-built-an-ROV-04/ https://suanto.com/2024/06/06/the-time-I-built-an-ROV-05/ https://suanto.com/2024/06/06/the-time-I-built-an-ROV-06/ https://suanto.com/2024/06/06/the-time-I-built-an-ROV-07/ https://suanto.com/2024/06/06/the-time-I-b…

TFA is nothing short of amazing and absolutely deserves attention. The author (and his brother) built (from scratch!) a side-scan sonar remote controlled boat and an ROV (a remote controlled submersible) with a camera and a light, and with this they found TWO missing persons' cars under water. Real products of these sorts would have cost enormous amounts of money, but they built their own for the cost of parts and la…

Post by Natsu » Tue, Jun 11, 2024, 9:40 PM UTC

bemmu wrote: post #109

andrelaszlo wrote: post #32

This is amazing. A Finnish man gets curious about a missing persons case. He does some great detective work, and builds an ROV with side scanning sonar and video. The outcome, with some help from his brother, is just spectacular. I couldn't stop reading!

It's absolutely brilliant. Everyone has watched a TV show where a case is slowly being solved, but who actually considers that oh yeah, I could actually become the person who searches for a random missing person case, instead of watching it on Netflix? And the amount of McGyvering involved! How many people would have given up at one of the steps? Oh it requires coding in C++ for Arduino, sure, I'll just do that. Oh,…

Post by rkangel » Tue, Jun 11, 2024, 10:37 PM UTC

fusslo wrote: post #5

I love these long-form build logs. I just started reading, and I am making the faux-pas of commenting before finishing. But, I'm wondering what the challenges are of automating the ROV to map a body of water's floor in a pattern. like a grid pattern, or whatever is most efficient. At first I was thinking currents would cause displacement. but can't we sense the current moving us in undesirable ways and correct with t…

Post by bigiain » Wed, Jun 12, 2024, 2:32 AM UTC

trinsic2 wrote: post #132

_hbro wrote: post #22

> So where was he going? I saw two possibilities: either to Tikkakoski to visit his ex-girlfrind he was on the phone with or; just to drive around with a new powerful car, to shake off the heated phone call. I don't understand how suicide isn't at the top of the list here. He was obviously very upset emotionally. He didn't care for his belongs other than his phone. He didn't care to steal someone's car or answer for…

Why would he bring his phone though?

Post by spaceship__sun » Wed, Jun 12, 2024, 3:11 AM UTC

andrelaszlo wrote: post #32

This is amazing. A Finnish man gets curious about a missing persons case. He does some great detective work, and builds an ROV with side scanning sonar and video. The outcome, with some help from his brother, is just spectacular. I couldn't stop reading!