Making an RC Submarine

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[integza]

In Portugal we waterproof all our food

[Backyard.Ballistics]

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

[agepbiz]

Great project! I like the small size of the sub

[jocax]

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

[tictacturkey]

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

[Chanel-eu]

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

[Blacksheep-tu]

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

[BarrettCharlebois]

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

[garrettscott]

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

[yourniceneighbourhoodcat]

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

[OpreanMircea]

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

[DIYwithBatteries]

That's awesome bro make with PVC pipe 👍

[terencedodson]

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

[AlenHR]

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.

[phillipbotero]

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)

[subhashchalapati]

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

[raptorsaurusrex]

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

[StormBurnX]

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 :)

[Morggin]

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

[evandotpro]

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)