OPENROV

Democratized Exploration with Open SourceRobotic and Community

OpenROV is an open-source underwater robot. It's also a growing community (now over 3,000 strong) of DIY ocean explorers. The project began in a garage in Cupertino, CA, and quickly spread after raising over $100k on Kickstarter from supporters all over the world. The community of developers are continuously improving the low-cost design, developing new sensors, and building a distributed network of ROV operators to work the devices. It's democratized exploration.

OPENROV

OpenROV is not only open source, they are also crowdsourced, which means they rely on feedback from the community for ideas on how they can make the design better, places to go with the ROV, or information and ides that would benefit people interested in underwater exploration.

Assembly of OpenROV can be done over a weekend, and most sections take less then an hour. Building the OpenROV doesn't require being a robotics expert or having a degree in engineering, but it helps to have a little bit of experience with soldering, cutting, gluing, etc.  The kit is a high school-level building experience (but the team is always amazed at how capable very young people are at figuring this kind of stuff out).

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Once you've built an OpenROV, there are a ton of places out there to explore and members of the community share their stories of underwater adventures done with their Open ROV.