2024 Sub Team

 Time Line:

 We started building our ROV in April after it was purchased from Phoenix based company INVENTIVITY ROV-in-a-Box.  In May we made large strides to work on our ROV. 

The building of the frame went well. It was easy to mock up and glue together. 

Assembling and the thrusters went quickly with the team taking their time connecting the components to the tether. 

Mounting the thrusters is where the team started to have some issues. We had to cut the PVC Tees more than we thought we were going to have to. The directions stated that we should only be zip tying them on but we ended up having to glue them on to make sure they were secure. 

The only trouble we had with constructing our control box was that we didn't have the correct size drill bit. So, we improvised a little to make the size of the hole bigger. 

We ran into major issues with wiring. This is the first time we had run into this type of wiring which is much different than the VEX robots we use in class and previous competitions. We spent the most time making sure the wiring was correct.  We were in contact with  Inventivity to get some help with the wiring. We were able to get the left and right thrusters to work. The lift thrust was a little more challenging. It turned out some of the wiring wasn't correct. 

We have also come into struggles with getting the camera to be operational. We have connected all points but have come up empty on this (5/23)

The prop guard was one of the easier assemblies we had. The issue we had was making sure the holes were on the exact opposite side of the PVC guard. We did the best we could and we still had to get the Dremel out to shave the inside of the guard so it didn't rub the thruster. 

The initial buoyancy additions were simple to connect. 

Once we have got to the competition it was time to figure out the wiring and to get the camera to work. Luckily we had help from a veteran team, Type Writer Repairmen. We figured out the wiring was incorrect in several areas and had to reverse what we had done and fix soldering that was ugly.  We figured out the camera wasn't connect correctly and wasn't getting sufficient power.  

Day two of the competition we worked on making a prop guard for the center thruster and taping the last of our wiring.