Original Blue Robotics Enclosures now Open Source

Blue Robotics has making their original (non-locking) watertight enclosure designs fully open source and available for anyone to use or modify. Watertight enclosures are a fundamental component needed in all sorts of subsea applications and these now open-source enclosures are a great starting point for anyone interested in designing their own enclosures.

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The designs are licensed under the Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license, allowing you to copy, redistribute, transform, or build upon the design for commercial and non-commercial purposes, the only term being that you give attribution to Blue Robotics. Basically, do whatever you want and share credit if the files were valuable to you!

Files available here for 2″, 3″ and 4″ cast acrylic enclosures and flanges

ROV investigates Emma Rose mystery

In September 2021, the US National Transportation and Safety Board (NTSB) partnered with the National Science Foundation (NSF) and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution to use an ROV to investigate the sinking of Maine-based fishing vessel Emma Rose in late November 2020. The 82-foot vessel was located using side-scan sonar in an upright position with its outriggers deployed, in ~800 feet (243m) of water on the seafloor ~25 miles (40km) off the coast of Provincetown, Massachusetts USA.

The cause of the wreck is still unknown.

Full article at: Boston25News 10nov21

Student Tackling Microplastics Problem

Such an inspiring story about a student working out a way to address a global problem!

Anna Du has been building and perfecting an ROV since the age of 12, specifically to identify microplastics in the ocean. She also created an Artificial Intelligence (AI) simulation to predict microplastic locations and has even written a book about her passion!

Full article at: InspireMore 05jun22