Making an RC Submarine

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@integza 2 года назад

In Portugal we waterproof all our food

@Project-Air 2 года назад

Do you bother with tomatoes though? Surely they just go straight in the bin 🗑

@vinayakk2745 2 года назад

How does integza's 2 day old comment have only 12 likes!?

@ryanrenolds 2 года назад

@@vinayakk2745 how does project airs 4 month old comment only have 12 likes?

@ryanrenolds 2 года назад

@Camaro & Joca because I like his old videos what the fuck

@Allan_aka_RocKITEman 2 года назад

@Integza >>> Instead of sealing your servos with _olive oil,_ do you use _tomato paste?_ 😊😊😊

@Backyard.Ballistics 2 года назад

At this point you may want to start a series called "Project WATER". Well done by the way 👍

@Project-Air 2 года назад

Guess it's really Project Land, Sea, Air ;) Cheers dude

@CHECHNYA3017 4 месяца назад

@@Project-Air LOL!

@mohammedziyad753 Месяц назад

Yes

@tictacturkey3367 2 года назад

Yes we definitely need a part 2. I can see there are many improvements that could be made into a whole new video.

@jacksonp8587 2 года назад

Let’s see the sub launch a rocket

@bossmama1830 Год назад

@@jacksonp8587 FIRE ZE TORPEDO!

@jocax188723 2 года назад

Ah, I’ve been looking forward to this since DIYPerk’s video.

@charliefrater7143 2 года назад

I loved this video as well as DIY perk's video. You guys are the perfect duo! Nice work James, keep motoring on!

@Project-Air 2 года назад

Thanks Charlie! We had fun working together. It won’t be the last time 👍

@BarrettCharlebois 2 года назад

That magnet switch that your buddy had at around 3 mins is blew my mind it was pretty nifty

@garrettscott4094 2 года назад

I saw the "Pipe Bomb" that Matt made. It was truly amazing, but I love the simplicity of your overall design. Great work!

@Chanel17-e3u 2 года назад

Pretty much everything you build looks like a piece of art.

@janhumpolicek8373 2 года назад

ProjectAir: submarine

@piconano 2 года назад

There was air in those syringes.

@mehmetsar1456 2 года назад

SubmAirine

@richard--s 2 года назад

There was lots of air involved 😁 A great project for this channel.

@AlenHR 2 года назад

This is so cool. Was thinking a lot about building an FPV sub. And I run into same problems with water and data transfer in my head. I would try and just expose antenna to the air on a really small and light floater using very thin wire. Tangling could be a problem in that case, so I thought about some sort of antenna wire tension/retraction system. Not sure if there are antenna wire length-related problems, tho. Also, 3rd motor oriented to up/down axis and with some pitch control would give it much more maneuverability and control in tight spaces. And could compensate for most of the boyuancy problems.

@agepbiz 2 года назад

Great project! I like the small size of the sub

@MaulanaBagus_ 2 года назад

Yeah

@Project-Air 2 года назад

It'll be handy for exploring tight spaces!

@michiganengineer8621 2 года назад

@Dave Doherty A pulse jet powered submarine powered by... . . . . TOMATOES!

@greggv8 2 года назад

@@Project-Air The simplest way to eliminate water slosh upsetting the balance is to fill the water bottle with sponge. It will absorb the water and what does pool in the bottom won't be able to move fore and aft.

@thatguyalex2835 2 года назад

@@Project-Air Your submarine reminds me of the one made by Brick Experiment Channel, cos it is made using everyday household components. :) I like this ingenuity. 10/10

@StormBurnX 2 года назад

As I mentioned on Matt's video: I love the designs and can't wait for someone to inevitably come up with a truly wireless control system for subs :)

@nou5440 2 года назад

sonar might work well for a few hundred meters until it becomes laggy

@StormBurnX 2 года назад

@@nou5440 I've seen some experimentation for ultrasonic used for communications so I'm definitely curious if that would work reliably in their small creeks/ponds

@TheRamblingShepherd 2 года назад

@@nou5440 I've often thought about this. Problem is, there'd be no way to get video back.

@kwaaaa 2 года назад

The collab I didn't realize I needed in my life! Awesome content between the two of you. I love how the two of you approach the challenge so differently.

@yourniceneighbourhoodcat2156 2 года назад

*looks at your name *looks at the title Me:something’s wrong, I can feel it

@1.4142 Год назад

Pressurized air used to control the sub

@phillipbotero7505 2 года назад

Great video! Add a 'trailing floating wire antenna" for the RC TX/RX. Make it buoyant and long and some portion of it will float on the surface, even when at depth. (BTW, That's what real submarines do)

@VitruvianAlgo 2 года назад

this is a good idea. plus sub marines arent designed to move fast

@evandotpro 2 года назад

Great work! Really interested to see if you find any success with the low frequency stuff. I've heard you can "potentially" get up to 30-40m in fresh water for basic controls with the right conditions at 27/40mhz. Video transmission may prove to be much more difficult or perhaps simply limited by bandwidth and/or physics, but I'd love to see your results regardless! (btw there's no link to Matt/DIY Perks video in the description as of writing this comment)

@terencedodson9131 2 года назад

I was looking for this like 2 hours ago. Nice upload!

@seasnek7024 2 года назад

Absolutely love this idea. Now I want to build this myself!

@OpreanMircea 2 года назад

DIY perks is epic, I'm so glad you 2 did a colab

@raptorsaurusrex2242 2 года назад

Taking building a ship in a bottle to a whole new level!!! Love it!!

@pipa1556 Год назад

put 5 lego minifigs inside

@arnavsharma3471 2 года назад

Can't wait to see Part-2 of it!!

@Turt3zyKSP 2 года назад

another amazing video! and a great explanation of concepts related to the submarine! quite the interesting method of waterproofing lol

@thebeanberas9564 2 года назад

Can you make some sort of a autonomous vehicle for your next video?

@josephhill5453 2 года назад

I like It! Its always been a childhood dream to make a submarine im glad to see you and diy perks have done that

@youkofoxy 2 года назад

Humm... I didn't thought about the sloshing water, I did for the cable, it was huge. Some notes. For water sloshing, have you considered using foam or a more dense than air material that can be fixed? I also thought about peristaltic pump and a bladder for better buoyancy control, for Diy perk's sub, turns out I wasn't analyzing his project correctly again. On communications, a thin USB cable could be a decent tender. However I would consider just a long antenna cable attach to a buoy. My thought being, just use a long wire, however it has problems with impedance, so just a long coaxial cable sound safe to me. If only submarines weren't expensive, a relay fleet sound like fun headache.

@gerke_kok 2 года назад

I like the idea of the floating antenna. Indeed coax cable will be needed. But for sure: waterproofing a cable will be a challenge. Even in military size subs they still have a challenge in communication

@DIYwithBatteries 2 года назад

That's awesome bro make with PVC pipe 👍

@luxlucet-4 Год назад

I love this video would love to see you improve for deeper dives and more controllability. Would love more details on the build also so I could build myself at home.

@TNB-d7e 2 года назад

Amazing project

@5alm0n 2 года назад

I really thought this time having a submarine you would be wearing welly’s when testing. Great video once again !!

@eddieguyvh4765 2 года назад

If you want it to go deeper tan a meter or two, it will need to be tethered. Or you could use something using sound as a transmission medium, but I don't think a lot of people managed to do that... Great job

@hakachukai 2 года назад

The trick to low frequency data transmission ( for the video ) is that you have to broadcast the data over a spectrum of frequencies because the max data rate will always be frequency/2. So basically you end up transmitting 1/10th of the data on each frequency, but you transmit on 10 different LF frequencies and recombine the signal at the receiver. I don't know for sure, but I think that the Navy uses a lot LF transmissions for underwater coms.

@alooff5317 2 года назад

Maybe if you stuff the bottle with sponge water wouldn't slush around much. Also what frequency does commercial rc sub use ?

@nemod3338 Год назад

And after you are done diving you can have your afternoon tea. Marvellous.

@RandomBogey 2 года назад

Finally. After all the teasing, I feel like I’ve been waiting for this forever...

@Project-Air 2 года назад

Hopefully worth the wait!

@deshandewas9317 2 года назад

DIY Perks introduce you. Well done, Great

@ThatDev81 Год назад

Ive Watched lots of these kind of vids But I've never seen someone so entertaining the sad thing is not that many people watch him as he deserves Respect to this man keep up the good work 💪

@BDtechOne Год назад

Brother..... I like your project 👍👍👍

@yadesteny5698 2 года назад

This is Awsome. Just recently discovered your channel. Great vids over all. Impressive. Im really looking forward to the next video involving some kind of rocket engine

@Project-Air 2 года назад

Oh there will be plenty of rocket engines in the next video 😆

@yadesteny5698 2 года назад

@@Project-Air hope so man XD

@stonebayrocker 2 года назад

So..dosent rocket engenes work under water??! Just saying!

@ksp1278 2 года назад

Doesn't at all surprise me that Matt's solution was completely over-engineered. But, then, that's why I love his channel. Your solution, whilst definitely simpler, was still great.

@TheTheologyChannel 2 года назад

I 've just finished watching Diy park's submarine

@Daniel-hg2rq 2 года назад

Immediately after watching Matt's video I came to your channel, didn't see any thing related😞, since then I've been expecting yours. This is very nice, expecting a 2nd part.

@michaeljenkins5155 2 года назад

You should try a long thin Ariel that floats behind the sub along the surface.

@sebastiangregoroff3370 2 года назад

Nice project ! Thanks for sharing !

@_spartan11796 2 года назад

Had a feeling this video was coming. Supercool!

@neilgillies6943 2 года назад

Great project! How about a simple floating pod with all the avionics (2.4GHz ok :) - then a long _thin_ umbilical down to the craft? This would be similar to the Nemo dive system - a 9m deep battery powered scuba system - only it uses an air pipe instead of the cable :-) The craft should easily pull the pod along.

@niceguy5772 2 года назад

Pretty cool , good job james , and If you can make a Fast attack military Submarine with missiles and Torpedoes , that would be much cooler

@maisaanmufeed438 2 года назад

FINALLLYYYYY, IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS LIKE FOREVEERR

@cyberfloof 2 года назад

Definitely part 2

@subhashchalapati 2 года назад

>Change your bottle with wide open cap, >Put your electronics inside that bottle, >Use air balloons and sand packets for correct buoyancy and leveling.

@vilemberanek4448 2 года назад

I would love to see the sub get some kind of a arm, and it also could be a good thing to have one if you are going to use it for rescue missions.

@thatguyalex2835 2 года назад

Or pick up plastic from lakes and rivers, like the one seen in the left corner of the screen at 3:49 - 3:50 :)

@CBAR 2 года назад

that collab broght me to you in the first place :D awesome and i m glad i found you

@HH-xf9il 2 года назад

LOVE THIS !!!

@Morggin 2 года назад

DIY Perks sent me here! I love the collaboration you guys did!

@talisman3d595 2 года назад

Really satisfying seeing you iterate a design. X-4A looks and performs great

@RhythmicEye 2 года назад

Nice work!

@maxvonardelean6009 2 года назад

That was a good idea on that submarine

@UwU_MF 2 года назад

When an lvl 1 submarine got an legendary equipment

@diveguy1144 2 года назад

Definitely want part 2!!

@warrenmoy4251 2 года назад

35 MH. Goes through water but hard get hold off. Know. Grate project

@dchall8 2 года назад

I used to race sailboats around flags on lakes. To keep the flags in one place we built them with a concrete anchor (plastic jug with a handle filled with concrete), and tied a 10 feet (roughly 3 meters) of polypropylene rope (the yellow stuff) to the anchor. The flag was 10 feet of 4-inch PVC pipe sealed at the bottom but with a hole for an eye bolt. We tied 10 feet of polyester rope to the pipe. The pipe was partially filled with sand so it would bob in the water with the flag end up. Polyester rope sinks to keep from fouling boat propellers and rudders, and polypropylene rope floats (to keep from fouling on the bottom of the lake). The rope in the middle didn't matter as much. So if you wanted to make a floating marker tethered to your submarine, you could do something similar. Below 10 feet deep there's not much to see until you get to the bottom. Adjust your rope accordingly. Our lake was 130 feet deep near the dam, so we needed about 200 feet total for our purpose.

@ftwgaming0 2 года назад

I think the problem with using a water bottle as a ballast is that the submarine design isn't always going to be level, unlike DIY Perks' design which doesn't pitch forward or back. With yours, once you pitch forward or back, the water will go to the furthest point in the direction your pitched in, making it really difficult to pitch the other way. We could see that when you tilted your sub down, it never levelled out again. This wasn't a problem with DIY Perks, as his submarine was designed to be symmetrical, meaning it's CoM is in the middle constantly. If it was to tilt in a direction though, it'd probably be able to recover, as his has two dynamically weighted ballasts, meaning it could go back to the surface and level out, or make one side lighter than the other to level out and then equalize the weight once level.

@Sybertek 2 года назад

Can't wait to see how you and DIY perks face off with the subs!

@cyriljude3033 2 года назад

That's so British... Awesome keep it up.... !!!

@haydencaryofilles6379 2 года назад

I subscribed when you started your ejection seat series and I am still waiting for the final episode. I would love to see it :)

@bacon.cheesecake 2 года назад

1:08 Some brushless motors are, but most, and very clearly those, are not, it's just that motors don't mind water, brushed motors work fine too. Properly waterproof motors are useful when going into dirty water though, since you don't want it getting jammed with crap.

@bacon.cheesecake 2 года назад

Same with the servo, some conformal coating on the control board is all you would've needed for it to "stay unfried" as you said, you do want to waterproof it properly though to keep it running smoothly of course, water is not a great gearbox lubricant.

@Boogie_the_cat 2 дня назад

Only the Max 8 and Max 6 G2S motors use fully sealed bearings on the ends of the motor, as well as a rubber gasket on both ends. All other motors which say they are waterproof will eventually get intrusion of water and rust out those two bearings. Yeah, the windings and stuff are waterproof, but only those Max 8 and 6 second generation sensored motors use the gaskets and the sealed bearings. So, you can have your "waterproof" motors bearings get water damage, because all other motors use shielded, not sealed bearings. Possibly the max 10 G2S uses that same protection, but I don't one one, so don't take my word on the Max 10 waterproofing. That's why, for the 7 people in the world that actually read the instructions, you'll see a couple of paragraphs about the "waterproof" ability relying on the end user dismantling and drying and relubricating metal parts to be necessary for actual prevention of water damage. Swim at your own risk, sharks in the water, jellyfish, sunburn, whatnot etc etc...

@eclipsegaming6195 2 года назад

Very cool man turns water bottle into submarine very cool if you're not subscribed to the guy he makes very cool video

@CerebralOrigami 2 года назад

On board power with a very light tether (cat6) seems to work best. Add weights/foam nodes on the tether to make it neutrally buoyant. Another option that might be cool for control (not video) would be to play with a sonic pulsing transmitter/receiver set up and a light weight video cable. I think combining the two set ups would be ideal though. A light weight, neutrally buoyant control cable connected to a float which has radio on it so the cable would be for depth only. I love the VR helmet set up. I would add a heavy fishing line (In the U.S. we hall it 80 pound test) tether to the float for easy recovery. For power look into the tubular battery packs some cordless tools have. I wold also mount the two main motors on the fin controllers you originally had so you can change the pitch to look at something with out moving from where you are. I love the video and wish I could do things like this myself. Thank you.

@Sybertek 2 года назад

Love the Missive song at the start of the video. Wish more people used it.

@Jakereviewsall 2 года назад

pretty cool, came over from Matts video.

@mikelarin8037 2 года назад

Great project. I always enjoy your builds and hope they all make a second showing.

@yelsew816 2 года назад

Have you considered filling the bottle fully with something less dense than water? Perhaps alcohol or acetone?

@ddegn 2 года назад

The deep sea submersible *Trieste* used gasoline in float chambers. Gasoline probably isn't a good option in this example but maybe vegetable oil could be used.

@s2wheels Год назад

Could've tried adding a longer wire to the receiver antenna. Then adding a fishing float somewhere on the antenna. To make sure it stays upwards. Towards the surface of the water.

@NicholasRehm 2 года назад

Just missing a little salt and pepper on those servos and mmmm

@Project-Air 2 года назад

😂

@justinconley7978 2 года назад

Yes. We need a part two maybe put some LED lights on the front.

@CinematicsHD Год назад

so this is what oceangate used as a model

@madeintexas3d442 2 года назад

Keep it up with the sub content. I have been working on the design for mine for awhile and love seeing it on RU-vid. All of the off the shelf subs are junk and really intended as toys.

@timschafer2536 2 года назад

Maybe just use an antenna tether, so the antenna is above the water

@batman4ever666 2 года назад

Thanks for the video!

@davidpayne4315 2 года назад

I'm gonna try these things

@ZukunftBilden 2 года назад

Just came from DIY Perks. That was awesome!

@PartsnPixels 8 месяцев назад

This is so cool! I plan on building one of these myself...

@user-hs3dg8jy3t 2 года назад

Love this!

@glennesbit5069 2 года назад

Love it. I would like to see tests that explore potential range differences in sea water vs. fresh water. Does salinity have an impact on radio waves?

@qldgadgets 2 года назад

Yes, even the chlorine and other chemicals in pool water will effect the range of RC signals.

@davefletch3063 2 года назад

You should have used solid weight ballast fixed in place. Cool project and neat design

@simonc3443 7 месяцев назад

We love this video. Please make another submarine. Cheers, Sam

@DavidRJones82 2 года назад

I'd like to see you and RCSubGuy collaborate!

@mvrckstudios1725 2 года назад

That's so cool

@seafood459 2 года назад

Dude, your content is amazing! Keep up the good work! What a nice surprise to see two of my favorite youtubers in a colab! Cheers 🍻

@Sereniitty 2 года назад

it kinda looks like the serenity shipp from firefly wich is FREAKING AWESOME! ... if you ask me.

@wolfreicherter748 2 года назад

yeah I want a part two too

@mmawad100 2 года назад

Just use a single thin wire from the receiver antenna to the transmitter antenna the waves will travel through it or just from the receiver to just the surface of the water will be good.

@wattage2007 2 года назад

Nice. Felt sorry for you in Matt's video so it's good to see you solved the problems with your wee sub :)

@xarlixe7565 Год назад

Amazing video and skills : )

@michiganengineer8621 2 года назад

Hmm, as an alternative to completely filling the main bottle with water, fill it so it is neutral then weigh that water. Mix up some epoxy to that weight and put THAT in the water bottle (sitting level). Once the epoxy cures it won't be moving. Then you could probably use smaller syringes for trimming the buoyancy. You could also make a 1 or 2 meter long 4 wire tether going to a foam float with the antenna for the RC and FPV mounted on the float.