Tuesday, 3 July 2012

OpenROV submarine crowdsources testing through Kickstarter



OpenROV

A Nasa engineer's open source submarine has smashed its Kickstarter target in less than 24 hours.


Eric Stackpole started building OpenROV -- a lunchbox-sized robot that can be controlled from a laptop -- to explore a nearby cave that was rumored to contain sunken treasure. Soon enough, a community of engineers, tinkerers and scientists took interest in the project.


By: Mark Brown, Edited by: Duncan Geere


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via Wired.co.uk



http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-07/03/openrov-kickstarter

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