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Exploring the ocean with Raspberry Pi–powered marine robots

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by rgovostes

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CUREE, the Curious Robot for Ecosystem Exploration, is another autonomous underwater vehicle built around the Raspberry Pi 4: https://warp.whoi.edu/curee/

by Arcanum-XIII

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Blue Robotics (bluerobotics.com) is also using Pi, for their BlueRov and survey boat (BlueBoat) - they’re quite nice to use (and not toys… you can add sonar, dvl, usbl locator to go at depth - max 600m with the kit)
I’m also starting to build other water/ground vehicles for underground exploration - communication and localisation are challenging, without speaking about navigation on uncertain terrain. Pi are accessible and cheap, and the Pico’s are also very useful to interface with the motors, sensor and so on.

by ge96

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I think it's so cool you could in theory buy a satellite module eg. $250 break out board from spark fun, plug it in and be talking to a robot in the middle of the ocean. I wondered about the legal aspect, can you do that? Just release something into the wild.

by vzaliva

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I find another article linked from this one even more exiting: "BearID: Face recognition for brown bears" https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/bearid-face-recognition-for...

by Frannky

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This is so cool! What are the cool projects in the space? I would love to start building and playing with these robots

by sfdlkj3jk342a

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I bet there are some people building cool things for narco cartels with similar parts..

by pks016

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Not as cool as robotics but we use Pi zero for audio playback for songbird research.