Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2004 10:00 am
King_Ice_Flash wrote:I would go with a cable. This way when it breaks, you have something to drag it up by.
Unless you can make an X-Wing rise out of the swamp...
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King_Ice_Flash wrote:I would go with a cable. This way when it breaks, you have something to drag it up by.
Thorn wrote:<Thorn walks away shaking head and muttering about when NS Forums had Real Men writing posts.>
sykojester wrote:BW *sniff*
Yeah, attaching some Cat5 to sucker would get you 300ft AND would be dirt cheap, however, I don't know how big this waterbound robot would be, but I'm 'guessing' that it won't be too keen on dragging around a few hundred foot of Cat5 (even if stuff weighs less in water). I'm too lazy to find out if Cat5 sinks or swims, maybe someone here has already tested that.
Thorn wrote:Good point. Tethered ROV's use floats attached to the cable to keep it neutrally buoyant. (See what you learn watching all those National Geographic specials.)
nleahcim wrote:because I really don't want to have to make that stuff from scratch...
nleahcim wrote:... But at least for a while I don't plan on having it be able to go down very deep (keeping a good seal becomes difficult and whatnot when you start going down low)-
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nleahcim wrote:... so I was thinking I might put an 802.11G card onboard - then run a 12ft or so shielded wire up to the surface with a floating omni antenna. I think that shouldn't be too hard - though again it will be kind of a pain to be pulling that antenna around everywhere... but it will only have to deal with the drag - as the antenna will be holding up the majority of the wire.
Madhadder wrote:... As for the tracked option, We used a small RC toy tank to pull a kite string thru the ducting.. Granted the ducts were large...
Barry wrote:Dude, you're already building a friggen ROBOT! What's one more home made thing going to hurt??!!
On a different train of thought, anybody know of a small tracked robot type thing that could pull cat-5 bundles through overhead cable trays??