Making an RC Submarine

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@integza 2 жыл бұрын

In Portugal we waterproof all our food

@Project-Air 2 жыл бұрын

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

@vinayakk2745 2 жыл бұрын

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

@ryanrenolds 2 жыл бұрын

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

@ryanrenolds 2 жыл бұрын

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

@Allan_aka_RocKITEman 2 жыл бұрын

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

@Backyard.Ballistics 2 жыл бұрын

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

@Project-Air 2 жыл бұрын

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

@CHECHNYA3017 11 күн бұрын

@@Project-Air LOL!

@tictacturkey3367 2 жыл бұрын

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 жыл бұрын

Let’s see the sub launch a rocket

@bossmama1830 Жыл бұрын

@@jacksonp8587 FIRE ZE TORPEDO!

@janhumpolicek8373 2 жыл бұрын

ProjectAir: submarine

@piconano 2 жыл бұрын

There was air in those syringes.

@mehmetsar1456 2 жыл бұрын

SubmAirine

@richard--s 2 жыл бұрын

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

@jocax188723 2 жыл бұрын

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

@agepbiz 2 жыл бұрын

Great project! I like the small size of the sub

@MaulanaBagus_ 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah

@Project-Air 2 жыл бұрын

It'll be handy for exploring tight spaces!

@michiganengineer8621 2 жыл бұрын

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

@greggv8 2 жыл бұрын

@@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 жыл бұрын

@@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

@charliefrater7143 2 жыл бұрын

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 жыл бұрын

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

@BarrettCharlebois 2 жыл бұрын

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

@user-xg8it5sq6q 2 жыл бұрын

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

@garrettscott4094 2 жыл бұрын

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

@user-mechanicalmusic 2 жыл бұрын

looks like the perfect xmas gift for any rc junkie 🤫😆

@yourniceneighbourhoodcat2156 2 жыл бұрын

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

@1.4142 Жыл бұрын

Pressurized air used to control the sub

@kwaaaa 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@pipa1556 10 ай бұрын

put 5 lego minifigs inside

@RandomBogey 2 жыл бұрын

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

@Project-Air 2 жыл бұрын

Hopefully worth the wait!

@simonc3443 3 ай бұрын

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

@AlenHR 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@ZukunftBilden 2 жыл бұрын

Just came from DIY Perks. That was awesome!

@StormBurnX 2 жыл бұрын

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 жыл бұрын

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

@StormBurnX 2 жыл бұрын

@@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 жыл бұрын

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

@cxob2134 2 жыл бұрын

Yay another submarine video!

@raptorsaurusrex2242 2 жыл бұрын

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

@phillipbotero7505 2 жыл бұрын

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 жыл бұрын

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

@Sybertek 2 жыл бұрын

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

@terencedodson9131 2 жыл бұрын

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

@tofuissad947 2 жыл бұрын

U finally did it

@DIYwithBatteries 2 жыл бұрын

That's awesome bro make with PVC pipe 👍

@thebeanberas9564 2 жыл бұрын

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

@OpreanMircea 2 жыл бұрын

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

@evandotpro 2 жыл бұрын

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)

@TheHuizenre Жыл бұрын

To see how a simple design can succeed is amazing. Thanks. And you can prevent the water tilting your bottle by prefilling the bottle with cotton wool. Wishing you great success with future plans and your channel.

@seasnek7024 2 жыл бұрын

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

@grahammcnally4799 2 жыл бұрын

Very cool project! I love the underwater cameras because the of the shelf ones are so expensive. A bottom scouring drone finding buried treasures seems appealing to me. Nice work as always.

@Turt3zyKSP 2 жыл бұрын

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

@truebark3329 2 жыл бұрын

Okay I have waited enough for this

@mikelarin8037 2 жыл бұрын

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

@deshandewas9317 2 жыл бұрын

DIY Perks introduce you. Well done, Great

@nemod3338 Жыл бұрын

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

@tonybursa6205 2 жыл бұрын

wow that's cool you need to do a part 2

@Morggin Жыл бұрын

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

@talisman3d595 2 жыл бұрын

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

@PartsnPixels 4 ай бұрын

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

@maisaanmufeed438 2 жыл бұрын

FINALLLYYYYY, IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS LIKE FOREVEERR

@josepaniagua914 2 жыл бұрын

I'm excited, been waiting for this!!!

@EdwardChew 2 жыл бұрын

Looking forward to part 2

@cyberfloof 2 жыл бұрын

Definitely part 2

@batman4ever666 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video!

@josephhill5453 2 жыл бұрын

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

@GadgetsNow728 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing project

@seafood459 2 жыл бұрын

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 🍻

@JadzCraftsInvention 2 жыл бұрын

WOW that's impressive I love this video

@5alm0n 2 жыл бұрын

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

@hakachukai 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@Daniel-hg2rq 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@luxlucet-4 Жыл бұрын

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.

@lyre301 2 жыл бұрын

I followed you through the diy perks channel. Both you and his projects are very good!

@_spartan11796 2 жыл бұрын

Had a feeling this video was coming. Supercool!

@arnavsharma3471 2 жыл бұрын

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

@diveguy1144 2 жыл бұрын

Definitely want part 2!!

@haydencaryofilles6379 2 жыл бұрын

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

@HH-xf9il 2 жыл бұрын

LOVE THIS !!!

@yadesteny5698 2 жыл бұрын

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 жыл бұрын

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

@yadesteny5698 2 жыл бұрын

@@Project-Air hope so man XD

@stonebayrocker 2 жыл бұрын

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

@BDtechOne Жыл бұрын

Brother..... I like your project 👍👍👍

@GeoffTV2 2 жыл бұрын

Aha! well it's good to see the companion video. I came in from the DIY Perks video. Great builds both. I'm amazed at how you waterproofed the RC gear, I've not seen that done before. Although DIY Perks' sub is a bit 'pro' in comparison, I really like your sub too because it looks a bit more within reach of my skills. Nice job, thanks for sharing.

@CBAR 2 жыл бұрын

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

@sebastiangregoroff3370 2 жыл бұрын

Nice project ! Thanks for sharing !

@youkofoxy 2 жыл бұрын

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 жыл бұрын

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

@eddieguyvh4765 2 жыл бұрын

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

@TheTheologyChannel 2 жыл бұрын

I 've just finished watching Diy park's submarine

@ThatDev81 Жыл бұрын

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 💪

@ftwgaming0 Жыл бұрын

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.

@cyriljude3033 2 жыл бұрын

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

@RhythmicEye 2 жыл бұрын

Nice work!

@maxvonardelean6009 2 жыл бұрын

That was a good idea on that submarine

@dchall8 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@Sybertek 2 жыл бұрын

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

@UwU_MF 2 жыл бұрын

When an lvl 1 submarine got an legendary equipment

@niceguy5772 2 жыл бұрын

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

@pontuswendt2486 2 жыл бұрын

AMAZINGNES!!! Wohooooooo!!!!

@TheDrakenZ 2 жыл бұрын

I saw you on DIY Perks, and subbed to you, you're a champion! look forward to seeing future projects.

@Project-Air 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@sabelodavhana1057 2 жыл бұрын

Can’t wait for the next video

@user-hs3dg8jy3t 2 жыл бұрын

Love this!

@MCsCreations 2 жыл бұрын

Fantastic work, James! Nicely done!!! 😃 To tell the truth I really liked the first version! As soon as I can I'm going to try it out! 😃 I guess the issue was that the wires were too thick... But if the battery and escs stayed with the submarine it would've worked much better! Anyway, stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

@subhashchalapati 2 жыл бұрын

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

@alooff5317 2 жыл бұрын

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

@thechargedone169 2 жыл бұрын

Hey please do a part two. I know im kinda late writing this but hear me out. Ive got some ideas; - Put all the electronics inside fore a more hydrodynamic body because you will still be able to move center of gravity around and by sticking everything with velcro to a big sliging platform you will be able to make fine ajustments and still be abe to reach to it wheen troubleshooting. - Cut the cap of so you only have half of a metal bottle and 3d print a big lid mith hydrodynamic form. - And make the big cable smaller by using a ethernet cable and choose a light and flexible one. The batteries for the motors can be stored inside for more weight - The syringes should remain for balancing I hope you will read this and let me know what you think of these ideas Love your content

@vilemberanek4448 2 жыл бұрын

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 жыл бұрын

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

@fluffyhamster550 2 жыл бұрын

Here from DIY Perks Very interesting video 👍

@neilgillies6943 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@ksp1278 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@piconano 2 жыл бұрын

Love your content. I've binge-watched all your videos.

@michaeljenkins5155 2 жыл бұрын

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

@DavidRJones82 2 жыл бұрын

I'd like to see you and RCSubGuy collaborate!

@jakhazardzn9862 Жыл бұрын

40mhz :). Epic video dude !!

@Latchfpv 2 жыл бұрын

I was waiting for this video after seeing the one over at DIY Perks, and well it does not disappoint. Hopefully you can get a better receiver/transmitter situation going on so you can really stretch the legs on this beauty.

@xarlixe7565 Жыл бұрын

Amazing video and skills : )

@CerebralOrigami 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@eclipsegaming6195 2 жыл бұрын

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

@s2wheels Жыл бұрын

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.