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great... i can't wait to "spy" on fish and scuba divers...

OK Does anyone else think that the host of this blog is somewhat of a nutcase? Read his profile. "When the last Jew dies, so do we all!"???

Why not just go to the original site instead of this blog...

http://www.popsci.com/popsci/how20/68a9e0ed53bcc010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html

A bit of intelligence on the part of the submitter would have been very welcome. I mean, come on. It's not THAT hard to spell "homemade." They even do it for you in the article you submitted.

Ummm...this isn't exceptional. There's competitions everywhere for building ROVs. Hell, I built 1 myself in my junior year of high school.

It needs weapons.

What the article doesn't say is that on the weekends daddy takes it to the nude beaches.

Definitely awesome for the fact that it was all home brew and not a kit, however it still cant touch http://www.rc-submarines.com/id47.htm in terms of coolness especially since they can do not only torpedoes but SLBM-style missiles as well :D

The problem that some people might not see is the fact that he is using a quarter-mile long ethernet cable to transfer data, video, etc. Ethernet works up to 328 ft, or much less than a 10th of a while. I wonder about the validity of the report and/or the claim of quarter mile range.

Here's the creators website detailing the step-by-step process (visually):
http://www.rollette.com/rovrev2/index.html

He is a real creator working on lots of projects. His homepage lists them.

I live in Milwaukee and have got an even better submarine if you foos want to ever check it out. This puppy runs on swiss precision submersible diesel engines. I say we have a showdown

I’ve started to bury anything that has the word AWESOME in the title.

how can they transmit enough electricity to the sub for the pumps, the camera and all the mechanics through an ethernet cable? especially the pumps... pretty awesome...

next upgrade: wings and propellers to make it fly out of the water.

convert to AC? i could see a nice powerful signal being used. maybe some lithium polymer batteries? too bad all that stuff isnt chump change

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eh... I think this is diggable if it was wirelessly controlled vs. having a 1/4 mile tether.. Hard problem to solve, but anyone who has ever gone fishing knows this thing is going to be snagged on something and unretrievable in no time.

The Pirate Bay could submerge a submarine like this attached to a small linux webserver. Try shutting down the Pirate Bay now ya blimey barnacles, arrrrgggg.

Fairly ballstacular, imo.

agree that the reference should be to the creators website, as far as everything else the reason America is falling behind technologically isn't education it's lack of imagination or institutionalizing borg think.
We should applaud anyone that shows the initiative to think beyond the latest YouTube video or MySpace entry. Who cares that it has wires,etc at least their brains shows signs of being alive.

Did anyone else check out the torpedo button on that GUI screen shot? Thrusted waterproof firecrackers would be an awesome nice-to-have.

Technically it's an ROV but it's still pretty cool.I think I might build one myself I have half the parts on hand.

This is NOTHING compared to this:
http://www.englishrussia.com/?p=449

This guy actually made a REAL submarine from junk during the Soviet-era (when materials were scarce). And it actually works-he even travelled from St. Petersburg to Finland without stopping. And he doesn't even have a website.

Plagiarized from Popular Science magazine...