~5 hrs. 45 mins. of work in ~7 mins.
Spent a good chunk of time this week trying to get the OpenROV finished up. After a long day of wiring, fussing, the crimping of many Molex pins, and a harrowing unwinding and untangling session with the tether wire, I was able to finally plug everything in. It booted on the first power up! Next week I hope to get the motors wired up and working, and then we’ll throw it in the water and see what we can see.
I know what I’ll be doing for the next little while…
I had a good conversation with David from OpenROV this morning. We talked about potential partnerships, and I shared information about the Watershed Education Summit (WES), a project involving various El Dorado County high schools, the state Water Resources Control Board, the El Dorado County and Georgetown Divide Resource Conservation Districts, and the U.S. Forest Service. From the website:
During the four-day event, students, teachers, and resource professionals work together to complete the following tasks: stream cross-sections, stream gradient and stream water flow and velocity measurements, substrate pebble counting, macroinvertebrate sampling, shade measurement, Global Positioning Satellite data collection, water chemistry testing, riparian vegetation measurement, and large woody debris location. Partnerships with the El Dorado Resource Conservation District and the State Water Resources Control Board’s Clean Water Team are instrumental in making WES a success.
In quadcopter news, the POs are in, so I think I’ll be picking the ELEV-8s up from Parallax this week. The Go Pro HERO2s arrived last week, as well as some of the tools and odds and ends. Still waiting on the batteries, receivers, and some other pieces, but we should be ready to fly in the next couple of weeks.