An incredible read! Thank you so much. It even has the famous Finnish humility downplaying his huge achievements
I built an ROV to solve missing person cases
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#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 it. He never shows up anywhere.
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#23As 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 labor (sure, lots of labor). They did this on a lark.
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#24Excellent writing. The next ROV should have a magnetometer.
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#25> 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…
I think very few people commit suicide by driving a car into a river.
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#26This series of articles is genuinely thrilling to read. What a fantastic and truly worthwhile bit of detective work. Very well written up.
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#27I would suggest defining any acronyms in the title of an article in the introduction section of the article. Had to get to PART 6 to answer my first question: What is an "ROV"? "The solution was to use an ROV, Remote Operated Vehicle "
It is my futile mission in life to help people understand that initials, acronyms, and abbreviations are real barriers to communication.
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#28I would suggest defining any acronyms in the title of an article in the introduction section of the article. Had to get to PART 6 to answer my first question: What is an "ROV"? "The solution was to use an ROV, Remote Operated Vehicle "
It is my futile mission in life to help people understand that initials, acronyms, and abbreviations are real barriers to communication.
Sorry buddy, you might be SOL
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#29I loved the project!! I also like how “messy” the room is, reminded me of my room (1) when I was working from home years ago. I haven’t read the whole thing but I will, however, I did go through the technical details, some notes: > This model didn’t have a long enough range on the analog sticks I see you are using Radiomaster tx16s, pro tip: You can use ELRS 2W model on BOTH transmitter and the receiver, don’t use th…
I took the comment[1] on the analog sticks to be referring to the game controller pictured directly above: https://suanto.com/assets/2024/03/the-ROV-controller.jpg
I'm guessing that the range of resistance values over the full swept range of the sticks was small, and so getting precise enough values/smooth enough change out of it wasn't possible. (Assuming these things basically have X and Y potentiometers for each stick.)
[1] https://suanto.com/2024/06/06/the-time-I-built-an-ROV-06/
Re: I built an ROV to solve missing person cases
#30I would suggest defining any acronyms in the title of an article in the introduction section of the article. Had to get to PART 6 to answer my first question: What is an "ROV"? "The solution was to use an ROV, Remote Operated Vehicle "
It is my futile mission in life to help people understand that initials, acronyms, and abbreviations are real barriers to communication.
Funny, because I'd say that jargon is a facilitator of communication between knowledgeable people. It can always be looked up by those with the interest but not the knowledge. I end up doing this all the time, and appreciating reading dumps of domain knowledge and perspective. Meanwhile, writing everything for a lowest common denominator audience creates real barriers to communication - both destroying communications bandwidth, and also encouraging experts to retreat to less visible forums.