This page features a remotely controlled submarine equipped with a rotating video periscope, on-board computer, sensors and a CO2 ballast system.
This is a recent shot taken from the video periscope feed from this year's Regatta. The data on the screen is fed into the video signal prior to transmitting and is real-time telemetry data from the sub.
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this is the sub and the controller box at Rhode Island last year...
video periscope mechanism closeup.
The Basic Stamp 2p40 and board for the sub control and interface.
Submarine Fiber-optic video periscope testing. The helping hands are holding the top optic prism. The 'scope assembly is lying horizontally in a vise and the video signal is on the monitor behind it showing the gun turrets of the model destroyer in the foreground.
Same deal as before, but this time the 'scope is very close to the model. The image on the monitor is the depth charge racks on the back of the destroyer model. The Monitor is part of the 'Black Box' I made to control the sub. It has a touch screen, wireless video receiver, video screen and 9channel futaba PCM radio transmitter among other things.
This was a shot from my pool via a 'spy-cam' (pronounced LOW-RES) that was in a clear container and recorded on video. This marks the first year that I've gotten the little guy seaworthy before getting on a plane to the east coast. FoxLA channel 11 came out and shot some video for a segment on the remote control industry so I finally had some incentive to get back into and finish the sub for this year's regatta.
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