Project: OpenROV
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Name	OpenROV
Initiator	Ylebre & Jawsper
Status	Investigating availability of parts
Skills	Everything
Summary	Underwater

Ylebre and jawsper plan to build an OpenROV ([1]). This is a small, cheap underwater robot, connected to land with a tether for control (and potentially power).

Current points of action

• Acryl parts
• Where to get the controller board

Housing

The housing will be made of several tubes and laser cut pieces of acryl. We can probably use the laser cutter at FabLab for this.

Potentially suitable homeplugs

These are sorted by cheapness

• Conrad Powerline Adapter PL200D
• Allnet 200AV adapter starterkit ALL168205Nano
• TP-LINK TL-PA411KIT AV500 Nano-Powerline-adapter KIT
  • Pictures of similar device + teardown: [2] [3]
• Zyxel Powerline Adapter Mini 500 PLA4201 Starterkit

Other

This post explains some of the important things to keep in mind for power over the tether, and a possible solution.