The Cave Rover™ Project
Exploring the Unknown
The Cave ROVer Update: Our second pair of custom ceramic bearings are in and installed! Remind me these are in Forward Starboard, that’s now both fwd most thrusters running on the new bearing. Now to spin them up for a break in,
So accidents happen, but this just happened to my laptop, so don’t mind if i cry in a corner for a bit. This is very very Very bad timing. As it runs everything from rover to my life right now. Update: At
The Cave ROVer Update: Second battery unit is in, charging and conditioned in preparation for our up coming robot cave dive in Florida. The additional power unit will be a fantastic addition, as present test dives have demonstrated our average operating time
Getting to be a part of a presentation live in California at a makerspace (via Robot, while I’m home in Indiana), and see Cave Rover on the Screen, warms the heart!! So thankful to have such talented, amazing friends and community, truly.
The Cave Rover Project: Sharing the love today comes from Quebec! Jean-Philippe Dubuc shared with us his Cave Rover Sticker lunch box, this is so cool! Thank You Jean-Philippe!
The Cave ROVer Project Update: Continued systems checks in preparation of our Robot Cave Dive coming up March 6-7th, if all goes as planned we will try to even stream it Live! Software development code testing in collaboration with our Sonar Sponsor
The Cave ROVer Project Update: Our First Official Cave Robot Cave Dive Nears! Be sure to send all those positive energy vibes, as coming this March 6 & 7, after months of development and testing, the robot heads to Florida to conduct
Newest addition to the collection — with Lotus Petal.
The Cave Rover Update: Special thanks for Nikolous Bender Cox for the lead on a transport case for the bots. It might not be the prettiest or fanciest, but finally having something to transport in will be very helpful. Thanks Nik!
The Cave Rover Update: Special thanks for Nikolous Bender Cox for the lead on a transport case for the bots. It might not be the prettiest or fanciest, but finally having something to transport in will be very helpful. Thanks Nik!
!!!! ** BIG ANNOUNCEMENT ** !!!! After much anticipation, I can finally reveal that my team and I are headed to do combat at BattleBots 2020!!!! Honored, Proud and much Humbled to officially be member of team Aquatic Machine Force! “It’s Robot
Update: Great Game! ZimZam 1 and TeamDino 2. Rover is going offline for the evening, check back for more fun adventures soon. The Cave Rover Project: Who wants to go on a lights out sticker hunt in the Rover Laboratory?! We had
The Cave ROVer Update: More software updates and bench testing. New video overlay allows for important sensor data to display on the recorded video in real time, and turns on/off like subtitles. Very pleased with that feature. Additionally the new 360 Sonar
The Cave ROVer Update: Lots of software and code update today. New firmware in the lower sonar unit, Operating System update in on-board computer #1, Firmware/OS update in on-board computer #2, topside control software update. Special Thanks to a contribution from the
The Cave Rover Project: All New 2 inch Round (5cm) Stickers! Head on over to https://caverover.com/shop to pick yours up today!
The Cave Rover Project will be presenting tonight at 7:30pm at the Bloomington Indiana Grotto. See you there!
Update: Rover is going back offline to charge, that was an amazing game! Congratulation TEAMDINO for finding so many we lost track. ….. Let’s have some fun! Control an actual cave robot to explore and find the hidden Cave Rover Project Sticker
The Cave Rover™ Project: Sharing the love today comes via Fabian Van Keulen, showing his Cave Rover stickers, next to his robot Azure, in the Netherlands!! Fabian is a dear friend, twitch streamer & robot builder. One of the amazing things personally
The Cave ROVer Update: After months of hair pulling and many hours of coding, the Robotic Simulator is coming along. When the weather is to yuck to take the out the Cave Rovers, the advanced simulator allows test & training to continue.
Sharing the love, and time to kick some robot bootie!! Combat robot pilot Kev Baxter of England shared his fighting robot Iron Legion, preparing for battle in the UWE next week, sporting a Cave Rover Project decal!! ? This..Is…Awesome! Best to Kev,
The Cave ROVer Update: Completed the utility blade cutter accessory, and Very pleased with the results! Looks nice, functions great, stainless replaceable blade. To be utilized with and without the Benthic Sediment Sampler, for vegetation research, utility or aid for self rescue.
The Cave ROVer Update: Thaasta Knife, prototyping accessory utility blades for the Cave ROV, for use in vegetation sampling, various utility work and possible self rescue situations.
The Cave ROVer Project Update: Look who gets to spend 40hrs refabricating the Benthic Sediment Sampler. I can report that the sampler is Extremely Rugged. Out of the desire to push it to the limits to test for a failure point. I
Love seeing the love, be sure to share those Cave Rover Project stickers, magnets, window cling photos so we can post then on the website: CaveRover.com