The Cave Rover™ Project
Exploring the Unknown
The Cave Rover Project Hype Update: We were mentioned on the amazing Behind The Bots podcast !!! [Life Dream…Check!] If you haven’t tuned in before, Behind The Bots is a weekly combat robotics podcast that features the experiences and stories of the
The Cave Rover Project: Latest video! Find the beauty in failures, and strive on! First Cave ROVer Robot Cave Dive Attempt Mar 7,2020.
The Cave Rover Project: Sumpy First Dive Test! Go Exploration! Enormous Thank You to Galen Hekhuis for his support to the Cave Rover Project and adventure!
The Cave Rover Project: Salvador Lugo shared with us these amazing photos of his latest Cave Expedition in Puerto Rico sporting his Cave Rover patch! Salvador, thank you for the support and helping to inspire!
The Cave ROVer Update: Me: 0 – Mystery Robot Leak: 1. Thus far replaced all 4 leak sensor probes, new color indicating desiccant, 2 new expanding foam inserts, removed, cleaned, inspected, resealed primary enclosure, triple O-Rings on forward, camera dome, triple O-rings
The Cave Rover Project Update: All Hail the newest member to the robot team! For we shall call it Sumpy! The newest robot to the team comes to the project thanks to the incredible amazing wonderful inspirational Galen Hekhuis! Galen from day
Wow check this out! Mind blowing incredible, this means so much, I don’t even know what to say! In preparation for an up coming Expedition in Puerto Rico, Salvador Lugo had a Cave Rover Project Patch made up to show the love
The Cave ROVer Update: A Brief post Florida cave dive preliminary report. In summary during a recent cave dive attempt 3/6/2020, the robot entered the water, all systems go, as it neared the cave entrance, the leak sensor system went into alarm
A few photos from Marianna FL Dive sent to us from Donald Harter.
The Cave ROVer Update: What a great birthday, thank you everyone for such warm kind words. Just basking in this Florida weather, spent the first part of the day at Florida Caverns, I have wanted to see it since I was a
Great time visiting with Edd and hanging at Cave Adventurers.
Post tear down update: disassembled and completely dry inside, we are starting to suspect the sudden drop in water temperature might of condensated and sat the alarm off. As Joshua and I both noted no prior to dive loss in test pressure.
The Cave ROVer Update: Divers in the water, cave rover descending to the cave…Leak Detected! Emergency surfaced. I suspect I may have gotten some fine sand in the O-rings.. ? So extremely bummed that had to call the dive, so now no
Officially arrived at the Florida Cave Crawl! Lots of fun to follow..
The Cave ROVer Roject – Southern Bound… IN….KY….TN….AL….FL!
The Cave ROVer Update: Back in Business!! Third time was the charm and the primarily in-field control laptop is operational once more. Now to run the system through a final extensive system test, charge all the power packs, ready the cameras, and
The Cave ROVer Project Update: Attempt to replace monitor in preparation for leaving tomorrow for FL attempt #1…..Fail. 1) All back together and did not come up, so all back apart is goes…. attempt #2:….Put screw in wrong spot…one more time! 2)
Sometimes you find yourself chasing dreams, staring at that unknown, wondering what could lay ahead and thinking “do I go for it”. Having one of those deep thought days. Rather mentally and physically tired today, These past few months alone, have been
The Cave Rover Project: Wow, check out this stunning image of Cave Rover Project stickers being created at BW Sign Masters. What a glorious sight to see ? — with Christina Andrea Harris.