So many youtubers underestimate the power of them explaining what they are doing as they do it. I made it 15mins in without thinking about it and rewinded multiple times to really comprehend what you were saying before being pleasantly surprised this was a 30min video. Big fan of everything you do and especially a fan of your knowledge and ability to explain and articulate. Definitely smashed that sub button.
ngl, DIY Perks are one of those few youtubers who actually do what they put on their thumbnail and makes that so perfect that i could actually be sold to costumers.
The issue was less the engineers and more the CEO who said he refused to hire white guys or military veterans. You could be a good engineer, but if your CEO is deliberately not hiring subject matter experts for a left wing agenda, you can do your best at your specialty but you just won't have the background to properly use your skills since engineering is not a comprehensive career.
@@cat-le1hf He was a left winger, not right winger. I've never heard of a right winger who refused to hire military vets or white dudes on the basis of skin color. Hating the military and being race obsessed is exclusively left leaning behavior. There was a report that claimed he was a right wing megadonor but it later was revealed that the article was just written to obfuscate his statements as the truth was he only donated in a local campaign in Texas in a small amount over two decades ago, and his motivation was likely more due to business than politics. Plus he basically spent his whole life in California and nearly all of his career in the most left wing areas like San Francisco. You aren't exactly going to find right wingers hanging around SF with all the drugs and legalization of theft. lol
@@xMadMazx Yeah. Although I don't blame them, they did the best they could with dysfunctional leadership. And frankly the passengers can only blame themselves for not doing their own research. This guy apparently had to lower his price several times because no one wanted to get in it, that should have been a clue to the people who signed up that this wasn't a great idea. Lots of people were invited and most refused to sign on due to the obvious detachment from modern naval architecture.
@@cat-le1hf He was definitely not a right-winger. He was a radical left winger. Typical rich radical progressive left winger. Stop with the missinformation. You're a typical radical leftist. Because when something happens to one of your own you disown them rather than taking accountability for your party's actions. He was hardcore about diversity inclusion which is what killed him. You go woke you go broke and in this case you die. You guys lost Elon Musk because how radical you leftists have become. I never got that would be possible but you guys pulled it off. You guys called him a right-winger because he believed in the freedom of speech. He was never a right-winger until you guys pushed him into being an independent. You should be ashamed of your party. Of course you're not because you don't have the courage to think for yourself. Slave to MSM.
Between yours, James and Peter's recent subs I think I need to finally get off my ass and make one to take off the coast. They look like such a challenging and rewarding project.
"I was a bit worried that it looked too much like a bomb..." "Next up, I will be filling up the clear plastic casing with four kilos of sharp metal pellets!" :D
@@alkaupadhyay7650 Sure ua-cam.com/channels/VWgzB82P4xCq95byMwky-w.html btw i never said that DIY perks are bad. OFC they need to get their ideas from somewhere - and they did a great building!
@@spacegamer6906 In case the sub hits turbulent perturbations in the water that either messes with it's roll directly or even it's pitch (Operating either of the buoyancy controls in isolation will also cause roll as it lacks the counterrotating screw to balance the roll torque it produces).
It's a slippery slope. I also thought "I could make this if I had a soldering iron". Later I bought one. Then I thought "I could make this if I had a rotary tool". Ended up buying one as well. These days my go to excuse is "I could build this if I had the parts and materials". I refuse to buy electronic components and sheets of brass so that I don't lose that one. I'd rather blame the lack of resources than accept the lack of skill.
Damn man, am an engineer and i rarely get impressed by UA-cam's DIY projects, but almost all your projects impresses me, like in this the way you modified the servo is simply genius!
We have no idea how he knows how to do this, or how he planned it. He claims he made it up as he was going, but that seems completely improbable to me.
Love the project. Can't wait for version two! Three suggestions: 1.) Use a sensor to determine if the sub is level and then you can automatically adjust the two boyancy motors. There is a good chance going faster or going against currents will alter your level. This can easily be done with a cheap rc flight controller. It's overkill, but cheap and easy. Someone know of a dedicated sensor? 2.) Instead of having separate sets of thrusters to rotate and also "slide" left/right, just use one set of four. Engage 2 on one side to "slide" and engage one on each side (front/back) to rotate. 3.) I love Mr. Gadget's idea of a periscope. However, a traditional one would be very complicated. You already have a floating periscope platform where your receiver is located. Mount a second camera/video-tx with the ability to rotate and you can really take advantage of the long range that your rc set-up allows. Plus you can look around without having to surface. Disguise the whole floating part as a lilly pad and you have a true watery spy craft!
If he gets an RC flight controller for quadcopters, it could easily be programmed to do both 1 and 2 automatically with the same controls he is using in the video. It can be set to have the left control stick left/right activate the opposite side thrusters, and the right stick left/right can have it turn the rotational pairs go automatically. He is already on 2.4 GHz too, so as an ecosystem it would make sense. I was already coming here to suggest brushless motors/propellers but his associate in the video already suggested it. These extra things don't cost him anything but money as well, since he has so much ballast in there already since it's huge.
Building a space worthy craft is easier than a deep water craft, it’s getting the craft where it belongs that makes space travel so much harder than submarine travel.
The yellow submarine was more of like the "exploring" type of submarine used by researcher vessels. Whilst the one you made is a full fledge nuclear attack submarine haha
An older AM transmitter and receiver has a better submerged range, or even a 36MH FM set, also the analogue servos are a great idea as they require less power the closer they get to their commanded position. Digital servos are always using power to 'hold' in commanded position - slightly different system. Great project, loved it
I was just going to mention that. I remember having AM and FM radio control gear back in the 90s and 00s for cars and airplanes. While obviously not as stable a signal as 2.4GHz, an AM system would likely work quite well underwater! 👍🏻
I suppose with that solution it would work even better if the the antenna from he steering unit would be submersed too? It would eliminate the signal losses when transferring from air to water? Don't real submarines have any specific antenna configuration to communicate with the external world? If they have such methods, they most probably will about never be allowed to use it when doing their sneaky business.
@@tuttebelleke US and Russian military submarines can receive when submerged, other nations need to surface to communicate. A careful scan of the surrounding sea is needed before surfacing and they use high frequency tight beams aimed at satellites. The ultra-low frequencies used to transmit to submerged submarines have wavelengths measured in kilometres, so the transmissions come from aircraft trailing cables several kilometres in length as antennae. It is possible to build ground stations close to shore, but they are easy targets because of the huge and fragile antennae so aircraft are used instead.
Brilliant! What a marvelous first attempt! Would more batteries and larger thrusters be better as ballast? Let the additional mass work for its passage instead of 'deadheading.' :)
@@Helveteshit Having more power doesn't mean you HAVE to use it and break Mach 1, with the joysticks I imagine you could control the speed for a slow exploration cruise but it's nice to have the extra speed when it's time to get it back to shore. I agree with the lights though,
Yep, just means he can add just under an additional 4kgs which is quite a lot of room, but not in volume... or you can adjust the starting internal pressure to calibrate the ballast also.
Matt, don't forget about safety! If the sub goes too deep, it can pull its antenna under the water and you lose control. It is necessary to add an emergency system that will force the boat to surface if the signal is lost. For example, dump the ballast.
make the float for the antenna more buoyant than the sub has weight with full ballast tanks under water. that way it can't pull the float down and you don't need some complicated emergency system
Words can't explain how cool the creations he does are, honestly it's really opened my eyes to science and other stuff that at first didn't really appeal to me.
It was cool to see this actually work in the end. The only thing I ever managed to build from your channel was a wireless Bluetooth speaker but I want you to know that your content is deeply inspiring. Please keep making beautiful and awesome stuff.
I'd love to see what I imagine to be hours and hours of planning, design, testing, and repeat to get to the designs that you've made videos on. This skill in itself is invaluable to aspiring creators/makers and all your videos completely skip over this step.
The U.S. Navy has a project called SeaPerch that is a STEM outreach program for high schools. I suggest looking into it for some ideas. I remember reading the documentation, which was designed to help student overcome various obstacles using very cheap solutions. One thing I noticed that you may want to look into is the tethering cord. ROV tethers are neutrally buoyant. If I remember correctly, the solution they came up to that issue was to attach pieces of foam pipe insulation every foot or so to counter the weight of the line.
Please bring this back, I'd love to see an even more improved version of this, it's already so awesome. Hopefully a lake trip too, goddamn i didn't know i loved submarines until today!
Bro. What do you do for a living. You are an absolute genius. Kinda my hero. I have always wished I could be smart enough to do the stuff you are doing.
I really like "unrollling" the servos into the syringe position control. That's great work, every part presented was more clever than the last. You can economize on your thrusters though! You currently have 4 translational and 4 rotation pumps. You should be able to use the transmitter's mixing control so that (for example) the left-right of the throttle stick runs opposite ends in opposing directions and the left-right of the right stick runs them together for translation. That will free up 4 pumps and 2 channels.
Or he could keep perhaps keep both sets of pumps for extra flexibility, that way you get the flexibility to use both sets of thrusters just to turn or translate if you want to also.
The problem with your "competitors" sub may not just be the weight of the tether, also the fact that that he used water to achieve neutral bouancy. He will naturally have slack tanks / free surface effect, causing the weights to shift with every movement. Best option to achieve neutral buoancy is permanent (ie fixed) ballast that does not have room to move. It is possible to achieve this with water, though you need to reverse engineer the weight needed. Your idea to work from the center, with the battery pack probably being the heaviest, made it probably have naturally more of a neutral trim, though it seems that after adding the weights you have small trim issue, probably meaning you are just a few grams off in one end as it is floating quite well from the looks of it. Would love to see how it behaved in a bit deeper water though, it seems to be quite decent, though maybe a bit underpowered.
Another issue with trying to achieve neutral buoyancy before submerging is that the conditions of the water will greatly affect how much needs to be displaced to be considered "neutral". Things like temperature, salinity (salt content), and pressure will limit just how deep that submarine can go and how well it performs. In particular the sub's inability to regulate the pressure of the air inside its ballast tank will make it so either there's a maximum depth to which it can descend; or if it _can_ go deep enough, it'll result in the ambient water pressure being so great it compresses the air inside more and more as it sinks to the sea bed like a rock. The latter would be a somewhat greater issue for DIY Perks' submarine as it relies exclusively on the pressurised ballast tanks for buoyancy where ProjectAir's vessel will be able to counteract somewhat by using the propellers and fins to orient itself vertically and push itself back up. Submarines are complicated, yo.
@@notean That would complicate things a bit though. A simpler solution would be to add additional servo to control the two syringes separately, and being able to ballast forward and aft independently. Though suspect a combo of channels on the remote and/or space / weight restrictions might rule that out.
@@TheZirMc IMO it would make things more complicated as you must constantly compute pressure of tank1, tank2, depth and desired angle . It is possible to with computer controller but not simple. You must constantly fiddle with 2 motors to get balance. In my way you can set/freeze depth and set/freeze angle separately.
"Without calculation"? That was hilarious. This project required an amazing level of deep insight as well as an enormous breadth of comprehension of physics, electronics, and mechanics. I learned a lot from this great video. Thank you for your insane curiosity and passion for experimentation. :D
Haha yea I had a good laugh at that as well. I don't know how accurately he calculated it in the end but approximating it with a simple cylinder should really give close enough results to achieve that neutral buoyancy roughly :)
Nah dude, it's not an amazing level, anyone can reach this level in a few youtube tutorials. If you aren't just trying to cleverly flatter him, give it a try. Find some cool idea that you'd like to make real and slowly learn what you need. It will be a lot of fun
absolutely amazing! The moment the submarine went down and up, went forward en backwards, I genuinly was as excited as you were. Thanks so much for this DIY Perk.
Your videos have a certain quality about them: they are pleasant to watch, relaxing and calming even, due to fluently but surely moving the viewer into a creative and positive mindset. They also emanate a contagious enthusiasm. Keep this on. :) This is your trade mark, your own creation you can be proud of and feel fulfillment about, Matt. :) Cheers!
Honestly, he's one of my favorite UA-camr.. his honesty with all the fault done during the project not only shows his humble attitude, but also helps viewers to learn along the way. Keep the cool attitude, Matt. And most importantly, with crazier projects next. Always will watch out for u.. ciao.
Honestly shocked we didn’t hear something like: “Now this first section here is for the ℙ𝕆𝕎𝔼ℝ ℂ𝕆ℝ𝔼. I’ll be using a small molten salt nuclear reactor that I’ve cobbled together from some leftover bits lying around the garage, but you could also get away with lithium batteries if you don’t have the supplies available.”
@@IRMacGuyver This makes me wonder if you heard the story of teenager that actually did that and literally tried to build a small reactor. If not suffice to say they succeeded in contaminating the local neighbourhood. Probably not surprising considering that forcing a nuclear reaction of some kind isn't that difficult engineering a system to isolate, shield and get power out of it is harder.
Oh, finally someone built such things, When I was 10 (now I am 50), I drew several design very similar to this. However I didn't have those tools to build this. thanks , great job. I will follow your design to build one, after I have money to buy the 3d printer
I have been watching and even playing with simple submarine toys geared towards kids for much of my life but the first minute of your video did an amazing job helping me understand a basic law of submarine "how they work", before I knew enough to know i was missing something and NOW i know enough that what i was missing was what you explained in the intro of your video.... thank you so much!
I tried something similar last summer, but i used an ikea plastic box and a peristaltic pump to fill a small tank inside. It seemed perfect because it was fully sealed and easy to drill ports in it, but as soon as it was unerwater it would be deformed by pressure and lose more buoyancy than it should... And so i learned why submarines aren't rectangular and made of thin plastic.
"buoyancy relies on the weight of the object being less or equal to the weight of the water it displaces" why couldn't my teachers all through highschool and college explain it like that? Literally INSTANTLY understood exactly how it works after being slightly confused by the concept my whole life.
my physics professor last semester explained it by giving us formulas and then throwing word problems at us and having us figure it out, worst professor i've ever had
@@stevep250 I was lucky, I got a cool teacher who was both good at teaching and also funny. I did quite a good bit of learning thanks to how he explained stuff like that in ways that made sense for my stupid 18 year old brain.
You had some odd teachers. That’s the easiest way to explain it. Then you throw the Archimedes principle in and you’re basically done. I’ve never heard it explained NOT like this.
Very cool project there! I have two suggestions for future model(s): 1. Instead of adding steel pellets to add weight, would it not be awesome to add more batteries? 2. Also, it would be a next level submarine if you could change to a frequency that can propagate under water so you can eliminate the floater and make the submarine 100% self-contained.
4kg of batteries is a lot of batteries lol. Would have to add anothe half meter to do that. But that half meter would add more bouancy so more batteries would be needed again. And so on and so forth. The thing would be 5 meters long.
Next video: "ICBM are Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles. They are basically very big missiles that can travel across continents to hit distant targets, usually with Nukes. Normally, they are viewed more as deterrents than actual weapons, because as soon as one of those is launched, all Nations that are also Nuclear Potencies will also launch theirs in what is called a MAD(mutually assured destruction) protocol. This would most likelly destroy all major cities in the world, cause a nuclear winter, and possibly end 80% of complex lifeforms in the planet." Today I will show you how to trigger a nuclear apocalypse with this DIY build!"
The thing I particularly like about this is your thrusters. They are so minimally invasive that they don't disturb the wildlife. Meaning you actually get to see some stuff rather than it all running scared from a big choppy prop.
This so appealed to the kid in me. Back in the day, I would have killed to have something like this to go exploring the ponds and streams where I lived. I especially liked that it was all stuff you could get from local suppliers with little modification. Thanks for sharing this.
Very cool build~ If you want to try a design without a tether you could use a radio operating at a much lower frequency that'll stand more of a chance piercing the water. As you pointed out 2.4GHz just gets absorbed too quickly for any useful depth. As a precaution you could have it surface on loss of contact by binding one of the channels to always transmit. When the receiver loses that signal have it surface so you don't lose it ;)
Most recent rc transmitter have a failsafe option which can set a servo to a desired position if signal is lost. In his case he could set it to empty the ballast.
@@Runescapeluvr4 27MHz should work well. I would recommend checking if that band is legal to operate in your country as it varies depending on where and what you're using it for.
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DIY Perks: "I've not done any calculations..." OceanGate: "You're hired!"
awesome! Arm Chair Upgrade Ideas: 1) add some floats to the cable to help keep it slightly buoyant/ very buoyant just above the sub. This may help keep the cable above the sub and prevent it from wrapping around any of the jets. Also maybe consider testing the strength of the cable you are using/how strong it is attached to the sub. It's probably fine, but adding an independent cable with it's own structural attachment point might open the door to you being able to do some really fun stuff. 2) Take a page from James and add dome higher def cameras to you rig. I'm sure you can make a whole video just about that and salvage some cameras from cell phones or something lol. 3) I think you need to add sonar.
This is pretty neat. I would probably remove some of the steel ballast and add some more batteries instead for extended runtime as there are quite a lot of devices in there. Also 'low power' should probably trigger the ballast tanks to purge while it still can.
Ever since playing Subnautica, I Crave exploring the deep unknowns. Even just cruising about underwater (Cyclops anyone? Sea Moth?). Amazing as always! Man, this also gave me an idea to make a simple mini battery powered propulsion device to get my fishing line with bate out into the ocean without swimming, or drones or anything.
How do you even come up with these designs? Its one thing to have ideas and a completely different to implement them. You not only come up with awesome ideas, you have the knowledge and skills to give life to them too. You have it all planned out. What materials to use, where and how to connect everything, what would work and what wont. So much planning and such a keen eye to details. That too in such short time and to make time to shoot and edit a high quality video of it. A superhuman achievement. Awesome work as always.
As always, this is brilliant engineering. Just a quick comment -- couldn't it be reformatted as three parallel tubes to be more compact? Two ballast tubes and a control/camera/thrust tube in between them?
Additional cross-sectional area dramatically impacts a submarine's performance moving through the water. While it would make the arrangement more compact, it would dramatically impede forward motion by doing so. It's a good thought, though! Never stop questioning what's possible, as it's the only way we can develop.
Well done Matt. I always look at the length of your video and think «naaah I don’t have time for half an hour, I’ll just skip fast through it to the end». But the production quality is so high I feel like I’m missing out if I skip through it, and suddenly: half an hour gone. Wonderful job!
Love this channel and both designs! ProjectAir's design takes great advantage of not having people aboard with amazing diving speed and underwater navigation while DIY's design is more stable and well suited for under water observation
This guy's creativity, problem-solving ability, knowledge and enthusiasm are outstanding. I enormously appreciate the effort he must put into making these videos and the sacrifice it implies in comparison to other youtubers who spit out new videos at least once a week. Thank you so much!
Excellent build! I'd love V2 to have more speed (rear prop?) and an element of hydrofoil control. The water pumps looked quite weak and I'm not sure you could maintain control in moving water like the sea. My instinct is that significant forwards motion combined with hydrofoils should allow you to quickly change depth by moderate amounts without actually changing the boyancy syringes.
My kids must NOT see that video, they would harass me until I make a DIY submarine. This is an awesome project, your creativity and problem solving ability are both impressive! 👏👏
I saw that the current setup is very sensitive to the setting of the syringes. This is quite logical, as the overall density of your submarine should be exactly that of the surrounding water to stay at a constant depth. What you could do is program a PID (or PD) controller and a pressure sensor somewhere on the body of your submarine. Then you can use your controller to set a depth (by setting a pressure). This will increase the ease of use of your submarine. (However, it will also add some complexity and weight to your submarine. As you need to add so much weight, it will probably not be that much of a problem.)
I love the look and feel of the little yellow submarine, but I absolutely adore the realistic functionality, the wireless control, and the means of propolsion of yours. Unbelievable.
We need a submarine re-visit please, Matt.
I was grinning like a school kid the entire video. It's just too awesome.
SAME!! I smiled oh so very much when it went underneath the surface the first time!
me a school kid
Where is the revisit Matt? You know, with great powers comes the great responsibility of making another video on this >:D
maybe its a complete redesign to make it cheap and easy to build :)
Agreed! I wanted to see it go in deeper water!
I'm enormously impressed with your ability to find parts that fit together with minimal modification.
I know right, how does he do that
Plot twist: Matt is the heir to the Perspex empire, and can have acrylic parts made to order at a moment's notice.
Lots of research
@@VladIDrago wander away.
This is my favorite as well. And my own personal style. I live in the country but one day uploading video won't be a PITA. 😂
Had so much fun working on this challenge! Can’t wait for our next collab and to release my video showing my ROV finally working perfectly! 😃
Same, it really was a blast! I'm looking forward to next time!
Hey
@@DIYPerks We too are excited 👏
Take it to sea! On a sunny day
@@DIYPerks It was a « ballast » !
I think the CEO of OceanGate believed in the DIY submarine a bit too heavily.
I was looking to see who would be here because of that.
@@jerometruitt2731 bro same
hahah same
Same ahahahha
to soonnn
So many youtubers underestimate the power of them explaining what they are doing as they do it. I made it 15mins in without thinking about it and rewinded multiple times to really comprehend what you were saying before being pleasantly surprised this was a 30min video. Big fan of everything you do and especially a fan of your knowledge and ability to explain and articulate. Definitely smashed that sub button.
Stuck in bed rest, fighting a fever but after watching this, I just wanna get up and build something. People like you make life worth living.
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Hope its not the rona
Hope u feel better soon!! 🤗
Damn true, wish you better and good luck man
@@2000jago wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
ngl, DIY Perks are one of those few youtubers who actually do what they put on their thumbnail and makes that so perfect that i could actually be sold to costumers.
Those ocean gate engineers should pay close attention
The issue was less the engineers and more the CEO who said he refused to hire white guys or military veterans. You could be a good engineer, but if your CEO is deliberately not hiring subject matter experts for a left wing agenda, you can do your best at your specialty but you just won't have the background to properly use your skills since engineering is not a comprehensive career.
@@DaveSmith-cp5kjnow the poor guys has deaths on their conscious just because their boss was a toush.
@@cat-le1hf He was a left winger, not right winger. I've never heard of a right winger who refused to hire military vets or white dudes on the basis of skin color. Hating the military and being race obsessed is exclusively left leaning behavior.
There was a report that claimed he was a right wing megadonor but it later was revealed that the article was just written to obfuscate his statements as the truth was he only donated in a local campaign in Texas in a small amount over two decades ago, and his motivation was likely more due to business than politics.
Plus he basically spent his whole life in California and nearly all of his career in the most left wing areas like San Francisco. You aren't exactly going to find right wingers hanging around SF with all the drugs and legalization of theft. lol
@@xMadMazx Yeah. Although I don't blame them, they did the best they could with dysfunctional leadership. And frankly the passengers can only blame themselves for not doing their own research. This guy apparently had to lower his price several times because no one wanted to get in it, that should have been a clue to the people who signed up that this wasn't a great idea. Lots of people were invited and most refused to sign on due to the obvious detachment from modern naval architecture.
@@cat-le1hf He was definitely not a right-winger. He was a radical left winger. Typical rich radical progressive left winger. Stop with the missinformation. You're a typical radical leftist. Because when something happens to one of your own you disown them rather than taking accountability for your party's actions. He was hardcore about diversity inclusion which is what killed him. You go woke you go broke and in this case you die. You guys lost Elon Musk because how radical you leftists have become. I never got that would be possible but you guys pulled it off. You guys called him a right-winger because he believed in the freedom of speech. He was never a right-winger until you guys pushed him into being an independent. You should be ashamed of your party. Of course you're not because you don't have the courage to think for yourself. Slave to MSM.
Between yours, James and Peter's recent subs I think I need to finally get off my ass and make one to take off the coast. They look like such a challenging and rewarding project.
A verified less like comment? well that's rare..
That would be awesome! Would love to see your take on one!
Lol
Yes, I'm your sub for long time, pls do it on your channel I would love to see it
But why are they all releasing submarine videos now? It's literally freezing and 2 feet of snow here. 😂
The plunger solution is brilliant but the whole project is outstanding
@MrHolyKindness real submarines can do this.
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Is there some submarine build fad going on that I don't know about? Always love the clever engineering of this channel.
Ikr? 3 people i watch created subs now.. the lego sub,petersripol,now this
Edit: the lego one is "Brick experiment channel"
It’s a subconscious hint: Sub(scribe).
When the impending climate warming and rising sea happen, all this submarine knowledge might be useful
@@crumblesilkskin rctestflight next?
Sean hodgins you are here i am a die hard fan of you and your project specially those bunch of oled displays
I bet this is way more resistant that Ocean Gate sub
yea
Agreed
Obviously not lol. The hydrostatic pressure at 3,800 meters (depth of Titanic) is 5,500 psi.
@@SubvertTheStateha, didn't get the joke? Nerd
"I was a bit worried that it looked too much like a bomb..." "Next up, I will be filling up the clear plastic casing with four kilos of sharp metal pellets!" :D
Lol
Damn you beat me to it XD
I was gonna say that it looks like some kind of missile from star wars.
hahahahaha, this made me cry... so true!
OMG, I thought he said BONG which reminded me of Harold and Kumar in "Escape from Guantanamo Bay!"
Can't forget the shrapnel. 😅
So many clever design choices, lovely build.
Well there is a similar project on UA-cam from few years ago.. Nearly the same design. So thus one here is simply stolen to make money through ads ^^
@@asdf-uj7wv Wow what a smart 🤓 view. Care to provide a link? Also every content you see nowadays is stolen.
@@alkaupadhyay7650 Sure ua-cam.com/channels/VWgzB82P4xCq95byMwky-w.html
btw i never said that DIY perks are bad. OFC they need to get their ideas from somewhere - and they did a great building!
@@asdf-uj7wv I mean the last sentence is pretty damn sharp. Except that you could have said i saw something similar/a similar model was made before
OK this is such a cool project!
It is
Has a more complicated controller for a homemade toy than ocean gate had for a craft holding 5 people
ceo watched a different youtube tutorial
That's industry standard
@@Official-Jesus-YTas is this controller in the video being industry standard in... whatever this industrys called lol
@@NashTheInsomniacbro probably watched 5 min crafts
@@planetmusic11041 minute panics
Matt in 2047: "DIY moonbase with life support"
lol
2055: cryogenic chamber
2067: life extensor & time machine
So apt
Way sooner than that. Hell, if he Cody and collaborated on it, they could probably have one in the next 5 years.
add alien pet
This looks like a spaceship.
The part with the linear resistor is brilliant, an absolute 200 IQ move!
no roll control tho
@@wolf2403 why would you need roll control?
@@spacegamer6906 In case the sub hits turbulent perturbations in the water that either messes with it's roll directly or even it's pitch (Operating either of the buoyancy controls in isolation will also cause roll as it lacks the counterrotating screw to balance the roll torque it produces).
@@seraphina985 thanks, didnt know that
This aged well
@@ilikebeeswarm Jokes did too, look it up.
@@platinum8149W response
@@platinum8149bad jokes did too
@@XENTRE Shitty responses did aswell.
@@platinum8149 that wasn’t a shitty response
I remember thinking "I could make this if I had a soldering iron."
Now he's making a submarine.
well, ts100 costs nearly nothing
@@SergeiSugaroverdoseShuykov you can get a generic one
It's a slippery slope. I also thought "I could make this if I had a soldering iron". Later I bought one. Then I thought "I could make this if I had a rotary tool". Ended up buying one as well.
These days my go to excuse is "I could build this if I had the parts and materials".
I refuse to buy electronic components and sheets of brass so that I don't lose that one. I'd rather blame the lack of resources than accept the lack of skill.
@@phenomanII what did you made with all these tools?
@@SergeiSugaroverdoseShuykov 100€ is "nearly nothing" to you?!
Damn man, am an engineer and i rarely get impressed by UA-cam's DIY projects, but almost all your projects impresses me, like in this the way you modified the servo is simply genius!
Would u make me a custom sub project 🤔
@@purplepimp4204 sure, if you paid me
@@ironman5034 how about 250k
@@ToTeon sure but that's too much for a small sub
We have no idea how he knows how to do this, or how he planned it. He claims he made it up as he was going, but that seems completely improbable to me.
Love the project. Can't wait for version two! Three suggestions:
1.) Use a sensor to determine if the sub is level and then you can automatically adjust the two boyancy motors. There is a good chance going faster or going against currents will alter your level. This can easily be done with a cheap rc flight controller. It's overkill, but cheap and easy. Someone know of a dedicated sensor?
2.) Instead of having separate sets of thrusters to rotate and also "slide" left/right, just use one set of four. Engage 2 on one side to "slide" and engage one on each side (front/back) to rotate.
3.) I love Mr. Gadget's idea of a periscope. However, a traditional one would be very complicated. You already have a floating periscope platform where your receiver is located. Mount a second camera/video-tx with the ability to rotate and you can really take advantage of the long range that your rc set-up allows. Plus you can look around without having to surface. Disguise the whole floating part as a lilly pad and you have a true watery spy craft!
Underrated comment, u could make a lily pad nuke!
(Sorry I spend too much time in the r/Kurzegesagt subreddit XD)
If he gets an RC flight controller for quadcopters, it could easily be programmed to do both 1 and 2 automatically with the same controls he is using in the video. It can be set to have the left control stick left/right activate the opposite side thrusters, and the right stick left/right can have it turn the rotational pairs go automatically. He is already on 2.4 GHz too, so as an ecosystem it would make sense. I was already coming here to suggest brushless motors/propellers but his associate in the video already suggested it. These extra things don't cost him anything but money as well, since he has so much ballast in there already since it's huge.
Im literally watching all of your videos now. Im addicted. Please dont stop
11:00 you don't need separate thrusters for rotation and translation, this can easily be achieved through channel mixing in your radio.
I thought the same
DIY Perks will soon show us how to create a spaceship, DIY STYLE!
A BRASS SPACESHIP WILL LOOK SO SICK
And witheather handles and wooden finishing
space battleship
@@BrentonWoods774 Maybe he can team up with Matthias Wandel and get some wood in there too.
Building a space worthy craft is easier than a deep water craft, it’s getting the craft where it belongs that makes space travel so much harder than submarine travel.
The yellow submarine was more of like the "exploring" type of submarine used by researcher vessels. Whilst the one you made is a full fledge nuclear attack submarine haha
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nah its a controlled torpedo with a load of 4kg of tnt
@@seeskabel4561 nsa has joined chat XD
@@Motoxlight Do you mean U.S.A instead of NSA?
I love the fact that every project he starts and puts it to work he has so much joy that it works
Pure joy
Very rare these days
Can't wait till 2031 when you start making guides on how to build DIY Nuclear Reactors.
Fingers crossed, he is the one that can helps us make homemade spaceships 👍👍
haha
Cant imagine what diy tools/weapon he made when apocalypse happened
Using... you guessed it; brass!
ha ha ha ha good one :D
This is a long way since reusing laptop parts for other applications, the creativity in this channel is just absolutely awesome
all videos are exelent.Treasure in youtube.Knolage,nice voice,systematic in all aspects...Genious!
DIY perks: "I think it migth be too buoyant"
England: "Oh dear!"
19:51
😂😂
Now you're ready to go visit the Titanic.
😂
Hows life jerry
Not a very good idea
Jerry no 💀
An older AM transmitter and receiver has a better submerged range, or even a 36MH FM set, also the analogue servos are a great idea as they require less power the closer they get to their commanded position. Digital servos are always using power to 'hold' in commanded position - slightly different system. Great project, loved it
+1 When I saw the flysky come out, I was expecting a loss of craft at some point :)
lower frequency have better range under water so it would be best to use the lower frequency possible
I was just going to mention that. I remember having AM and FM radio control gear back in the 90s and 00s for cars and airplanes. While obviously not as stable a signal as 2.4GHz, an AM system would likely work quite well underwater! 👍🏻
I suppose with that solution it would work even better if the the antenna from he steering unit would be submersed too? It would eliminate the signal losses when transferring from air to water? Don't real submarines have any specific antenna configuration to communicate with the external world? If they have such methods, they most probably will about never be allowed to use it when doing their sneaky business.
@@tuttebelleke US and Russian military submarines can receive when submerged, other nations need to surface to communicate. A careful scan of the surrounding sea is needed before surfacing and they use high frequency tight beams aimed at satellites. The ultra-low frequencies used to transmit to submerged submarines have wavelengths measured in kilometres, so the transmissions come from aircraft trailing cables several kilometres in length as antennae. It is possible to build ground stations close to shore, but they are easy targets because of the huge and fragile antennae so aircraft are used instead.
Brilliant! What a marvelous first attempt! Would more batteries and larger thrusters be better as ballast? Let the additional mass work for its passage instead of 'deadheading.' :)
Great idea!
Bigger batteries allowing for more run time and more powerful motors. 🙌
@@boonjabby Don't think powerful motors is necessary. I think a slow cruise of underwater exploration is nice enough. I would rather have more Light.
@@Helveteshit Having more power doesn't mean you HAVE to use it and break Mach 1, with the joysticks I imagine you could control the speed for a slow exploration cruise but it's nice to have the extra speed when it's time to get it back to shore. I agree with the lights though,
Yep, just means he can add just under an additional 4kgs which is quite a lot of room, but not in volume... or you can adjust the starting internal pressure to calibrate the ballast also.
Cylindrical Lithium Titanate cells would be perfect for maxing out battery and battery weight
I love how he explains the reasons behind selecting a particular component.
The timing of this video being recommended is impeccable
Matt, don't forget about safety!
If the sub goes too deep, it can pull its antenna under the water and you lose control.
It is necessary to add an emergency system that will force the boat to surface if the signal is lost. For example, dump the ballast.
Co2 cartridge powered airbags for emergency buoyancy?
Okay genius
make the float for the antenna more buoyant than the sub has weight with full ballast tanks under water. that way it can't pull the float down and you don't need some complicated emergency system
@@Scott_C really smart
@@Scott_C as nice as that sounds your then fighting the amount of air still in the capsule if its in the sealed capsule like i think your thinking
Words can't explain how cool the creations he does are, honestly it's really opened my eyes to science and other stuff that at first didn't really appeal to me.
Omg
It was cool to see this actually work in the end. The only thing I ever managed to build from your channel was a wireless Bluetooth speaker but I want you to know that your content is deeply inspiring. Please keep making beautiful and awesome stuff.
I'd love to see what I imagine to be hours and hours of planning, design, testing, and repeat to get to the designs that you've made videos on. This skill in itself is invaluable to aspiring creators/makers and all your videos completely skip over this step.
I like the fact that the most convenient thing he had on hand to demonstrate something sinking was a small motor
it was probably dead anyways
What about wildlife I saw a dead fish
The U.S. Navy has a project called SeaPerch that is a STEM outreach program for high schools. I suggest looking into it for some ideas. I remember reading the documentation, which was designed to help student overcome various obstacles using very cheap solutions. One thing I noticed that you may want to look into is the tethering cord. ROV tethers are neutrally buoyant. If I remember correctly, the solution they came up to that issue was to attach pieces of foam pipe insulation every foot or so to counter the weight of the line.
Thats not a bad idea honestly
thats what they use in the swimming halls so
@@magnem1043 aka buoys
*every 152.4 cm
let me guess, your next projects is DIY GUIDED MISSILES with sugar rocket engine!!!! 😎👍
vid after that:i blew up area-51 we can go inside now
i legit though he was building an underwater missile 😭
@@lfm4159 so a torpedo XD
Don't show that video to Russia
@Dito Alfrido I can see an application for that to fishing, like under an icy lake
It's hilarious how this is being recommended to me now
Refined Design: I would say remove the steal pellets, and replace them with more batteries and for sure more powerful thruster engines :)
exactly what i thought when he started putting the steal balls in
he probably thought of that too but runout of time
4kg of batteries ?
Also doing so much changes to the submarine will lose it's water proofing.
Yes
I think the steel pellets are used to make it easier to adjust the weight distribution to keep the submarine level etc
@@ramdom_player201 the buoyancy balance can be adjusted using the syringes on each end.
THIS WAS SO MUCH FUN. I didn't expect to enjoy a submarine build that much, but I did.
Keep surprising us Matt.
Please bring this back, I'd love to see an even more improved version of this, it's already so awesome. Hopefully a lake trip too, goddamn i didn't know i loved submarines until today!
Bro. What do you do for a living. You are an absolute genius. Kinda my hero. I have always wished I could be smart enough to do the stuff you are doing.
Okay you can't convince me he isn't speedrunning his way to evil genius
He's doofinsmirtz in disguise...
Not so noticing lol
Matt would dominate the world with brass, leather and acrylic with some servos
Today, submarine. tomorrow, a nuclear submarine.
he is Gru
I really like "unrollling" the servos into the syringe position control. That's great work, every part presented was more clever than the last. You can economize on your thrusters though! You currently have 4 translational and 4 rotation pumps. You should be able to use the transmitter's mixing control so that (for example) the left-right of the throttle stick runs opposite ends in opposing directions and the left-right of the right stick runs them together for translation. That will free up 4 pumps and 2 channels.
Or he could keep perhaps keep both sets of pumps for extra flexibility, that way you get the flexibility to use both sets of thrusters just to turn or translate if you want to also.
I second this. Was just about to suggest the same, although my vocabulary wouldn't be as sophisticated 😅
The problem with your "competitors" sub may not just be the weight of the tether, also the fact that that he used water to achieve neutral bouancy. He will naturally have slack tanks / free surface effect, causing the weights to shift with every movement. Best option to achieve neutral buoancy is permanent (ie fixed) ballast that does not have room to move. It is possible to achieve this with water, though you need to reverse engineer the weight needed.
Your idea to work from the center, with the battery pack probably being the heaviest, made it probably have naturally more of a neutral trim, though it seems that after adding the weights you have small trim issue, probably meaning you are just a few grams off in one end as it is floating quite well from the looks of it. Would love to see how it behaved in a bit deeper water though, it seems to be quite decent, though maybe a bit underpowered.
Another issue with trying to achieve neutral buoyancy before submerging is that the conditions of the water will greatly affect how much needs to be displaced to be considered "neutral". Things like temperature, salinity (salt content), and pressure will limit just how deep that submarine can go and how well it performs. In particular the sub's inability to regulate the pressure of the air inside its ballast tank will make it so either there's a maximum depth to which it can descend; or if it _can_ go deep enough, it'll result in the ambient water pressure being so great it compresses the air inside more and more as it sinks to the sea bed like a rock. The latter would be a somewhat greater issue for DIY Perks' submarine as it relies exclusively on the pressurised ballast tanks for buoyancy where ProjectAir's vessel will be able to counteract somewhat by using the propellers and fins to orient itself vertically and push itself back up.
Submarines are complicated, yo.
Better solution would be single buoyancy tank and move-able ballast section which will auto-balance vessel as it goes.
@@notean That would complicate things a bit though. A simpler solution would be to add additional servo to control the two syringes separately, and being able to ballast forward and aft independently. Though suspect a combo of channels on the remote and/or space / weight restrictions might rule that out.
@@TheZirMc IMO it would make things more complicated as you must constantly compute pressure of tank1, tank2, depth and desired angle . It is possible to with computer controller but not simple. You must constantly fiddle with 2 motors to get balance. In my way you can set/freeze depth and set/freeze angle separately.
I like your transparency about all this
"Without calculation"? That was hilarious. This project required an amazing level of deep insight as well as an enormous breadth of comprehension of physics, electronics, and mechanics. I learned a lot from this great video. Thank you for your insane curiosity and passion for experimentation. :D
agree
Haha yea I had a good laugh at that as well. I don't know how accurately he calculated it in the end but approximating it with a simple cylinder should really give close enough results to achieve that neutral buoyancy roughly :)
Nah dude, it's not an amazing level, anyone can reach this level in a few youtube tutorials. If you aren't just trying to cleverly flatter him, give it a try. Find some cool idea that you'd like to make real and slowly learn what you need. It will be a lot of fun
@@anonymoususer3561 anyone? Nahh.
Lol, "amazing level" and to think he didn't actually think it through beforehand and believe him blindly.
absolutely amazing! The moment the submarine went down and up, went forward en backwards, I genuinly was as excited as you were. Thanks so much for this DIY Perk.
this man went from literally designing a silent pc cooling system, to making submarines. hats off to you man.
Bro's the most grateful person I've ever seen
This guy is a genius. Absolutely impressive and stunning work.
Your videos have a certain quality about them: they are pleasant to watch, relaxing and calming even, due to fluently but surely moving the viewer into a creative and positive mindset. They also emanate a contagious enthusiasm. Keep this on. :) This is your trade mark, your own creation you can be proud of and feel fulfillment about, Matt. :) Cheers!
Honestly, he's one of my favorite UA-camr.. his honesty with all the fault done during the project not only shows his humble attitude, but also helps viewers to learn along the way. Keep the cool attitude, Matt. And most importantly, with crazier projects next. Always will watch out for u.. ciao.
Honestly shocked we didn’t hear something like: “Now this first section here is for the ℙ𝕆𝕎𝔼ℝ ℂ𝕆ℝ𝔼. I’ll be using a small molten salt nuclear reactor that I’ve cobbled together from some leftover bits lying around the garage, but you could also get away with lithium batteries if you don’t have the supplies available.”
One thing, (even if it has almost nothing to do with that) that crossed my mind reading that: miniature RBMK 1000. Underwater Chernobyl.
Gotta stockpile those old smoke detectors.
Diy nuclear submarine. That would be a neat story at parties
🤣
@@IRMacGuyver This makes me wonder if you heard the story of teenager that actually did that and literally tried to build a small reactor. If not suffice to say they succeeded in contaminating the local neighbourhood. Probably not surprising considering that forcing a nuclear reaction of some kind isn't that difficult engineering a system to isolate, shield and get power out of it is harder.
Oh, finally someone built such things, When I was 10 (now I am 50), I drew several design very similar to this. However I didn't have those tools to build this. thanks , great job. I will follow your design to build one, after I have money to buy the 3d printer
I just love Matt's excitement even when the design wasn't perfect he already had ideas for making it work. Can't wait for the improved version!
This dude just sets better and better standards, it's amazing how good his projects are.
Its so refreshing to see Matt having so much fun in playing with his project... hope to see more of this kinds of fun DYI! keep it up and more power!
I have been watching and even playing with simple submarine toys geared towards kids for much of my life but the first minute of your video did an amazing job helping me understand a basic law of submarine "how they work", before I knew enough to know i was missing something and NOW i know enough that what i was missing was what you explained in the intro of your video.... thank you so much!
When you replaced the variable resistors in the servos with sliding variable resistors, mind = blown. Greatest plot twist in non-fictional tv
Imagine replacing the steel pellets with extra batteries. That would be a lot of power!
On the other hand, having those pellets as a reference, a revised version could carry additional things. 🤷♂
@@McTroyd Make room for the ICBMs! ;)
@@pompeymonkey3271 Only if they're made of brass. 😉
imagine adding torpedoes
Isaque M - LT HoriZonT that's when you attract the 9/11 crowd.
I tried something similar last summer, but i used an ikea plastic box and a peristaltic pump to fill a small tank inside. It seemed perfect because it was fully sealed and easy to drill ports in it, but as soon as it was unerwater it would be deformed by pressure and lose more buoyancy than it should... And so i learned why submarines aren't rectangular and made of thin plastic.
Ocean Gates should hire this guy.
"buoyancy relies on the weight of the object being less or equal to the weight of the water it displaces" why couldn't my teachers all through highschool and college explain it like that? Literally INSTANTLY understood exactly how it works after being slightly confused by the concept my whole life.
If you are confused by buoyancy ❤️ they you are most likely stupid
my physics professor last semester explained it by giving us formulas and then throwing word problems at us and having us figure it out, worst professor i've ever had
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@@stevep250 I was lucky, I got a cool teacher who was both good at teaching and also funny. I did quite a good bit of learning thanks to how he explained stuff like that in ways that made sense for my stupid 18 year old brain.
You had some odd teachers. That’s the easiest way to explain it. Then you throw the Archimedes principle in and you’re basically done. I’ve never heard it explained NOT like this.
This is incredibly clever, was really impressive how you modified the servo to control the syringe.
I'm just speechless. This is absolute nuts. The height of innovation. Very very impressed and inspired
This is the most impressive DIY RC video I have seen sofar. Magnetic switch? Single point of failure water inlet? Damn.
You very clearly explain your every action and what you do in general. I've gotten a little smarter in the last 27 minutes!
so true...
Wait I was halfway through, and I didn't even realize that it's 27 minutes, wow!
And other people are watching island boyz trying to rap
#thank you so much #srsachinsr
Very cool project there!
I have two suggestions for future model(s):
1. Instead of adding steel pellets to add weight, would it not be awesome to add more batteries?
2. Also, it would be a next level submarine if you could change to a frequency that can propagate under water so you can eliminate the floater and make the submarine 100% self-contained.
...und once the battery level is drained the submarine gets back to its floating home base (like an electric lawnmower) for recharging.
@@a.nickol6559batteries don’t change weight when discharged, is that what you meant?
4kg of batteries is a lot of batteries lol. Would have to add anothe half meter to do that.
But that half meter would add more bouancy so more batteries would be needed again. And so on and so forth. The thing would be 5 meters long.
@@nicholasfaber9695It’s talking about adding a sensor so when the battery’s reach like 5% the submarine will go all the way up to be recharged.
Next video:
"ICBM are Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles. They are basically very big missiles that can travel across continents to hit distant targets, usually with Nukes. Normally, they are viewed more as deterrents than actual weapons, because as soon as one of those is launched, all Nations that are also Nuclear Potencies will also launch theirs in what is called a MAD(mutually assured destruction) protocol. This would most likelly destroy all major cities in the world, cause a nuclear winter, and possibly end 80% of complex lifeforms in the planet."
Today I will show you how to trigger a nuclear apocalypse with this DIY build!"
We should collab. We have the same intensions
... and it will have a nice retro style, being made entirely in brass.
Underrated
It's about time. See you all in HELL!
dropping small unidentified nuke on moscow hell yeah!
OceanGate Inc furiously taking notes as we speak.
narcotic dealers taking notes:
The thing I particularly like about this is your thrusters. They are so minimally invasive that they don't disturb the wildlife. Meaning you actually get to see some stuff rather than it all running scared from a big choppy prop.
Exactly!
My goofy ahh read like as don't like and got so confused
Yeah I'm gonna have to use those on mine
Wildlife LMAO
This so appealed to the kid in me. Back in the day, I would have killed to have something like this to go exploring the ponds and streams where I lived. I especially liked that it was all stuff you could get from local suppliers with little modification. Thanks for sharing this.
Very cool build~
If you want to try a design without a tether you could use a radio operating at a much lower frequency that'll stand more of a chance piercing the water. As you pointed out 2.4GHz just gets absorbed too quickly for any useful depth.
As a precaution you could have it surface on loss of contact by binding one of the channels to always transmit. When the receiver loses that signal have it surface so you don't lose it ;)
Do you think a 27mhz radio would work better?
Most recent rc transmitter have a failsafe option which can set a servo to a desired position if signal is lost.
In his case he could set it to empty the ballast.
i have a feeling that would make it much more challenging to get the live video feet at a good resolution
@@Runescapeluvr4 27MHz should work well. I would recommend checking if that band is legal to operate in your country as it varies depending on where and what you're using it for.
DIY Perks: "I've not done any calculations..."
OceanGate: "You're hired!"
awesome!
Arm Chair Upgrade Ideas:
1) add some floats to the cable to help keep it slightly buoyant/ very buoyant just above the sub. This may help keep the cable above the sub and prevent it from wrapping around any of the jets. Also maybe consider testing the strength of the cable you are using/how strong it is attached to the sub. It's probably fine, but adding an independent cable with it's own structural attachment point might open the door to you being able to do some really fun stuff.
2) Take a page from James and add dome higher def cameras to you rig. I'm sure you can make a whole video just about that and salvage some cameras from cell phones or something lol.
3) I think you need to add sonar.
This is pretty neat.
I would probably remove some of the steel ballast and add some more batteries instead for extended runtime as there are quite a lot of devices in there.
Also 'low power' should probably trigger the ballast tanks to purge while it still can.
Next episode:
DIY Yamato class battleship using only soldering and brass!
Brass pillar is a must.
And wood veneer
No no, he's going to make DIY Yamato SPACE battleship
@@pietroblaze Yes!
@@pietroblaze He is going to need more brass for that
It is hilarious that this is being shown to me on the homepage 😂
Ever since playing Subnautica, I Crave exploring the deep unknowns. Even just cruising about underwater (Cyclops anyone? Sea Moth?). Amazing as always! Man, this also gave me an idea to make a simple mini battery powered propulsion device to get my fishing line with bate out into the ocean without swimming, or drones or anything.
How do you even come up with these designs? Its one thing to have ideas and a completely different to implement them. You not only come up with awesome ideas, you have the knowledge and skills to give life to them too. You have it all planned out. What materials to use, where and how to connect everything, what would work and what wont. So much planning and such a keen eye to details. That too in such short time and to make time to shoot and edit a high quality video of it. A superhuman achievement. Awesome work as always.
This can be used for small scale ecological projects to monitor aquatic flora and fauna in a non-invasive manner! Excellent job!
As a Cold War US Navy nuclear submarine veteran this episode was a pleasure to view. Well done mate!
As a Cold War US Navy nuclear submarine veteran this episode was a pleasure to view. Well done mate!
this man is like:
"if you want something done right, do it yourself"
and I took that personally
Awesome as always! That thumbnail though... 😮
As always, this is brilliant engineering. Just a quick comment -- couldn't it be reformatted as three parallel tubes to be more compact? Two ballast tubes and a control/camera/thrust tube in between them?
Additional cross-sectional area dramatically impacts a submarine's performance moving through the water. While it would make the arrangement more compact, it would dramatically impede forward motion by doing so. It's a good thought, though! Never stop questioning what's possible, as it's the only way we can develop.
Not to mention that the two ballast syringes in series will give pitch control if operated separately
Isn`t that the standard configuration on RC subs?
I`d check, but I can`t be bothered, hehe.
Well done Matt. I always look at the length of your video and think «naaah I don’t have time for half an hour, I’ll just skip fast through it to the end». But the production quality is so high I feel like I’m missing out if I skip through it, and suddenly: half an hour gone. Wonderful job!
Love this channel and both designs!
ProjectAir's design takes great advantage of not having people aboard with amazing diving speed and underwater navigation
while DIY's design is more stable and well suited for under water observation
This guy's creativity, problem-solving ability, knowledge and enthusiasm are outstanding. I enormously appreciate the effort he must put into making these videos and the sacrifice it implies in comparison to other youtubers who spit out new videos at least once a week. Thank you so much!
Excellent build! I'd love V2 to have more speed (rear prop?) and an element of hydrofoil control. The water pumps looked quite weak and I'm not sure you could maintain control in moving water like the sea. My instinct is that significant forwards motion combined with hydrofoils should allow you to quickly change depth by moderate amounts without actually changing the boyancy syringes.
Yeah, the prop would be way more power efficient and faster than a thruster motor.
My kids must NOT see that video, they would harass me until I make a DIY submarine. This is an awesome project, your creativity and problem solving ability are both impressive! 👏👏
Anyone else notice a lot of engineering creators making submarines? They must know something we don't
teamseas
climate change
Becaumse submarime cool
What if 2012 was actually 2021?!
water rises
I saw that the current setup is very sensitive to the setting of the syringes. This is quite logical, as the overall density of your submarine should be exactly that of the surrounding water to stay at a constant depth. What you could do is program a PID (or PD) controller and a pressure sensor somewhere on the body of your submarine. Then you can use your controller to set a depth (by setting a pressure). This will increase the ease of use of your submarine.
(However, it will also add some complexity and weight to your submarine. As you need to add so much weight, it will probably not be that much of a problem.)
Submarine gang checking in!
Hey Peter is it possible to build a diy emp cannon that can take down drones?
I love the look and feel of the little yellow submarine, but I absolutely adore the realistic functionality, the wireless control, and the means of propolsion of yours. Unbelievable.