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[@LafayetteSystems]

This is an unbelievably cool project! You don’t usually see “Homemade,” “sidescan sonar” and “submarine” in the same sentence but you guys pulled it off beautifully

[@Archivus23]

Would've been cooler if they didn't just spend loads of money on popular hardware made for scanning.

[@Gl1tchy_B01_09]

Dude your videos are so good

[@tetronaut88]

Hi! You should rename yourself Elton john, because you're a rocket man lol.

[@everettgihring8099]

Yo! Fancy seeing you here!

[@Iugeer]

@@Archivus23 you expect them to build a whole sonar array from scratch?

[@paulcorrigan7999]

The boat needs a DPS (Dynamic Positioning System) and then it will be just like a real dive support vessel.

[@xureality]

ardupilot can dynamically hold position with loiter mode, not sure why they didn't use it here.

[@FarmerFpv]

More Vodka fix that my friends. Meow.

[@CPSdrone]

Yeah, we tested out the loiter mode, but it didn't work well because our motors spin only in one direction and the boat can't go backwards. I think loiter mode requires that

[@vinayakkhanna8303]

@@CPSdrone How do you fund these projects?

[@BrooksMoses]

@@CPSdrone : Would steering the motor pods 360 degrees rather than just 180 be enough to get that to work?

[@BPSspace]

You guys are hilarious and this project is super cool - underwater wrecks always give me the spooks but I love it. Great vid!

[@CPSdrone]

Thanks a lot! You just gave me a great new idea for a project: DIY submarine ballistic missiles hah ~Filip

[@mineline5620]

BPSSpace? Wow. Nice vids btw.

[@llaughridge]

BPS+CPS

[@Lockheed_martin_F-35]

@@llaughridge= slpash down rockets

[@Muhsaft86]

So you got a call from the Soviet Union?

[@Evathedefiler]

This is joke but I no understand (and no I’m 3 years old baby talking)

[@Kawka1122]

​@@Evathedefiler Joke is about red phone calling about lost IŁ-2. It was soviet plane.

[@даниилпрохоров-о4е]

Nowadays USSR has problems with it's own fleet , so they decided to call the experts :)

[@CPSdrone]

Wait, I totally forgot to call her back! let me do that really quick

[@Pyronimous]

The Soviet Union called, they wanted their plane back

[@finnigan16]

I've worked in the marine robotics industry for over ten years now, and I've actually run surveys there just off the coast of Gdansk and Gdynia. You guys are doing a great job! Very impressive. It's a lot of fun watching your projects unfold.

[@DyslexicEngineer]

For the radio link, you can maybe use ExpressLRS to have more range, Really good video !

[@ilya_k392]

I would even switch to 915mhz version to have better range so close to ground. And I would try to analyze the pins from the plug of the sonar sensor, and just try to mirror it over 4g\5g internet to the ground station head unit (but that will be quit difficult).

[@ZappelFly]

I was thinking exactly the same, when i saw the radio. With ELRS you can have a range of many kilometers at best. Maybe you could also do the videosignal via some drone protocol by simply filming the screen of the onboard Hummingbird with a drone camera. That would probably also save you some energy.

[@JayReding]

That would definitely help. Raising the antenna as much as possible would also help - the water is going to tend to reflect and scatter RF signals which can be very annoying to spread-spectrum systems. ELRS also has a 2.4gHz/915mHz combo option now that would be really nice for a use case like this.

[@yakacm]

Yeah that's what I was thinking.

[@TrinomCZ]

@@ilya_k392 Sorry guys, that's highly illegal in Europe. 900 MHz range is a 2G cell phone base frequency.

[@someguy2965]

i hope they do more deep dives

[@CPSdrone]

me too actually

[@dennisash7221]

Cool video. The problem you have with the waves is mainly due to the fact that you have a very short length of the boat making very unstable, there are two solutions to reduce the bounce of the boat, 1. make it longer, a lot longer 20 to 30 ft which would help stabilize but that will be a huge boat. The other way is to build the boat with SWATH technology hulls, if you can get the motors on a kind of pontoon that operates about 1m under the surface of the water you can have a super sable platform to mount the sonar onto. The other solution is to make a towable drone that operates at about 1m below the surface and mount the transducer onto that to maintain its stability. your image will be much smoother. This could have some far reaching implications for SAR in bodies of water, this is an awesome project.

[@Sailing360]

they COULD cheat and make the transducer (sonar head) that already sit on a stick.. add two gimbal servos to keep it mostly level at all times.. COULD add yaw as well to compensatete for boat being turned by waves during the search, simply do absolute stability on pitch and roll.. and dampened follow on yaw, so if you turn the boat, in a few seconds it will follow the boats new heading, but won't be tossed off by a abrupt yaw moment.. its a hack, but old-fashioned droned gimbals used servos and we flew 5-8pound cameras.. with servo stability - the tech is pretty off the shelf.

[@Ma_X64]

The first set of antennas did not work, most likely because, with the polarization it uses, there is a certain minimum height above the surface on which the antennas must be installed, and this is clearly not 2 meters.

[@CPSdrone]

very interesting

[@Ma_X64]

@@CPSdrone Also (purely from my own experience) radio systems often works better having significant height difference on their ends. Like, 10th stage of a building on one side and just ground -- another.

[@lorenrb80]

This was epic, love watching people achieve professional results using off-the-shelf tech!

[@Corsairtux]

Tell me you are polish without telling me you are polish: "The boat swim" Btw its super entertainment to watch you guys. I love you videos! For a moment I thought this was another video from @rctestflight

[@k27vids1]

how aren’t you famous? You’re literally the plug of entertainment, and the fact that you don’t have 1 million is just unacceptable.

[@ScienceFoxxy]

I had a similar idea when I was younger, and you guys did such a great job creating it irl. I could never have the patience, time, or materials to do this, great work!

[@maciek_k.cichon]

Came for the plane, stayed a bid longer. You guys are smart, funny and give a fair amount of suspense. Subed.

[@cristiangarces5832]

Amazing video! Brief note about the wreck The remains of the IL2 in the bottom of the water are the metal components of the plane, basically the main fuselage and the roots of the wings. The wings and tail were made of wood, so they disappeared by degradation and time. There is a wonderful scale model made by Diego Quijano in 1:48 of an IL2 showing its materials, look at it, and you will see how the submerged remains of the aircraft fit with the original metal structure of the plane.

[@3nertia]

As someone from Kentucky - the south - I'm certainly fine with you using the term "redneck" lol

[@KumquatChampion]

Im glad some one said it! Some one needs to tell Doug so we can have a cross over episode!

[@travibe]

Bro you guys are flippin hilarious! I'm from Maryland in the USA, but lived in Louisiana for about 10 years (The south - cool guys with cool boats). Trust and believe they love their boats... they are members of their families. I've been watching something like 4 of your videos in a row laughing at your sarcasm. lol you guys are awesome keep up the good work!

[@iscuit]

This deserves millions of views 💯💯

[@adicsbtw]

For the future, a good option for long range wireless communication might be LoRaWAN it's specifically designed to be able to transmit and receive from ridiculous distances and very low powers. LoRaWAN specifically is designed to host a wifi network across the LoRa protocol, which would be perfect for your router issues. LoRa can easily span over a kilometer without directed antennae, and with them, I believe the range is ~8 km

[@bastienx8]

LoRa is for low power and low bandwidth applications, like remote sensors. In this case the direct video from their underwater drone require a lot more than a few kbps so I don't think it is a good option for them.

[@adicsbtw]

@@bastienx8 That's fair it's only a few Kb/s I believe still a neat technology tho

[@bastienx8]

@@adicsbtw Yes it's cool, but it's a bit expensive for consumers if you just want to try with little devices. For professional use cases (or semi pro) it is really great

[@HueMongussD]

Awesome cameo appearance by an Opel. 👍🤣

[@GrindHardPlumbingCo]

Ridiculously cool guys!

[@CPSdrone]

Thanks a lot! I've recently discovered your channel as well :) I gotta say, we should probably also try making multiple videos from one project hah

[@spaideri]

Really cool projects. Couple of improvement ideas. Make the sonar be always vertical (active or passive control) and also maybe turn it to compensate for steering angle because of wind.

[@Allan_aka_RocKITEman]

A simple way to increase your transmitter's range: Lift an aerial with a Kite. *EDIT→* Great video. Subbed...👍

[@allthehandlesweretaken]

would a helium baloon work to?

[@thatcatthatalwayseatsyourchees]

@@allthehandlesweretaken probably too hard to get more of easily

[@lbgstzockt8493]

@@allthehandlesweretaken Anything to gain altitude works. Kites are just really cheap and easy

[@NoGreedSeeds]

Innovative and inspirational. I love the approach, fully autonomous and wireless, with a top running boat to handle all the extra gear. 🎯💯💎

[@erickwoodard9991]

I love watching your builds. I would add an international diving flag to the top of your boat so it wont get hit and tangled in a propeller.

[@rsmith3062]

118k views and only 5.5k likes? come on people, how do you not like this video? 70% of what they do is way over my head but the projects and they undertake enthusiasm, expertise and even humor are captivating, let's go press the like button!!

[@desert1701]

this was awesome! it's amazing how we don't know about stuff just 500m off our shores.

[@kubaflanker2186]

Miłe zaskoczenie jak usłyszałem polski język :) Fajnie zobaczyć takie projekty realizowane w Polsce, powodzenia w rozwoju kanału.

[@Swiftershock]

Your Videos are always very interesting and the quality is great!! keep up the good work!!

[@hapskie]

Fantastic video, subscribed! Also like the narration, you guys are funny :)

[@Jay-qs1ef]

Great video, and great idea. I bet the emergency rescue search pattern (a bunch of weird triangles) would make the searching go more quickly. It's called "Sector Search"

[@yak-machining]

1:22 i got jump scared because i thought it was a smiling alien

[@MaxSMoke777]

You don't really need to interact with the Hummingbird screen, do you? Just point a wireless camera at the Hummingbird screen, inside a black box. You'll lose a little resolution, but a DJI O3 Air Unit can transmit around 2 miles, uses less power, costs $200.

[@yigitrecepozdemir4073]

Congragulations! You've acquired: *Army Tech*

[@rikvermeer1325]

Wow, great video guys!! Loving every bit of it

[@Hope_Boat]

It was very kind of you to put also the measurements in Darth Vador units.

[@73Ferret]

Love this, having worked around USVs for years. I remember using a Tritech Starfish SSS logging to a pc on the USV, and the software allowed you to control it all over a Wi-Fi link. Keep it up!!?

[@2testtest2]

This is really cool stuff you are dooing. If you want to improve the quality of the sonar image, I would suggest you look into building a SWATH type vessel. They are specifically designed to not be affected so much by waves.

[@richdecibels]

the 3d model to 3d printing shot at 17:40 is so classy 👌

[@Big_Blue_Eyeland]

Man great great great job! You just made every billionaire treasure hunting outfit that cost thousands and thousands of dollars per day look like absolute chumps! My hats off you got a subscriber!

[@mocha_GTAG]

these guys deserve like super high level funding to make the coolest shit

[@j-smith00]

LETS GOO ( i was in vc when u were editing ) Very good video, worth the wait. Like how you added the plane part and all that

[@garrettwilliams9237]

You should add a gyroscope to the boat to correct for waves and wind

[@bowieinc]

Great video over all. Really enjoyed. Great perseverance.

[@Sleeepydudee]

Thank you algorithm for recommending this gem to me! Looking forward to more interesting project from you guys!

[@xmeo209]

Dude! I just discovered this channel today and watched almost every vid.

[@glenndhooge6787]

I love what you guys keep inventing and doing with the CPS drone. you two keep amezing me

[@MarkxTube]

Hey guys, great system! Built something simmilar for my sailboat a few years back and mapped a few wrecks in the Baltic. The key is to keep the sonar stable and with even water flow and deep as possible to avoid air bubbles from the surface. For mapping and seeing even more details check out the ReefMaster software. Happy hunting!

[@SUPER_HELPFUL]

Very tempted to try this out in lake Superior, tons of shipwrecks and very little footage of the deeper areas.

[@DarrinJillson]

Great job! You have a nice system for finding underwater objects. We will borrow some of these ideas for our underwater search and rescue projects.

[@loordimus]

Very inspirational! I've been planning to make an autonomous sonar boat for a couple of years now, this should help. I will be satisfied with the sonar unit recording the sideview though, no need for live feed in my case. Keep those cool projects coming! :)

[@Iugeer]

what will you be looking for

[@loordimus]

@@Iugeer Interesting targets for ROV exploration, good fishing spots and just overall curious about what lies under the surface.

[@echo3996]

This video is deserving of a sub. That was really impressive thank you for sharing.

[@davegillbert8947]

im convinced you have infinite funds

[@f35t3r6]

Adventures with Purose would love to have one of these im sure for finding cars...

[@roadsrfr]

Your video was much more interesting than I expected. Good luck with your next bit of searching 👍🏻.

[@kogger8519]

Finally you get to the sonars! 🤘

[@davidschulz7352]

As someone born in the American south. Your good bro

[@AndecIunson]

the more i see polish people the more i'd like to have been born a polish dude.. you seem to have an awesome country!

[@nikodembartnik]

Super cool video!

[@CPSdrone]

Thanks Nikodem!

[@npsit1]

Waves are the reason most sonar systems ride below the surface of the water. Same with Ocean oil rigs. Their sponsons are well below water surface level which keeps the vessel steady.

[@jbeyer321]

I've built a similar autonomous sonar boat for a different purpose. I also experienced and overcame many of the same issues :) I do like the added sub and it gives me a few ideas. Looks like you have a great team which would be very helpful. I'm only myself on my spare time. My next autonomous vehicle is a UUV since it solves some of the issues being on the surface, but also introduces some other issues.

[@Iugeer]

were you looking for treasure be honest

[@jbeyer321]

@Iugeer Just building a dataset for water quality data. I figured why not collect bathymetry data too. Treasure would be neat to find.

[@mjklein]

Well done! We have some WWII fighter aircraft offshore in Taiwan but no one has documented them.

[@newmonengineering]

Awesome. Next version: a larger one with 2 solar panels on top and LRS radio link.

[@caposey]

2:39 What CPSdrone really said: We made new end cups for the hulls. CC: we made new end cups for the *h* Ah, yes. H.

[@psychorubygamer]

This is really cool. I need more content of this finding stuff.

[@cristalliglike4134]

let`s go CPSdrone !

[@vert2552]

i mean with all the cool stuff you do, seeing how you designed smallest plastic winner to hold whole drone, my first reaction within 5s was "lol how is it supposed to hold it?" :P

[@tonygagey]

well done you guys! Maybe more powerful motors on the boat? But definitely a win!

[@paps0n]

Great video guys, keep it up!

[@TheSnero3]

I love this channel!

[@christianbrieden1068]

You guys do amazing stuff! 👍

[@linecraftman3907]

Amazing project, no way this was cheap or easy! I wonder if you ever managed to take a picture of the drone with a sonar 😁

[@darrelljacobjr2120]

11:17 It's called a fov microcam aimed at the screen transmitting video to your ground station.

[@darrelljacobjr2120]

Since the water is basically radio opaque, mount your antennas on fiberglass poles (driveway markers) sticking up above the boat. First rule of ham radio...good antennas, mounted as high as is practical. On both the boat and the ground station.

[@prathameshdevaramani3651]

Love your work man , very cool . Can you make projects on aerial drones ?

[@KastaRules]

I learned a new Polish word today: PRZYSTANEK.

[@Niki_777]

To fajnie ogólnie jeszcze dużo tego masz

[@JL-wf2wp]

Finally something interesting in youtube

[@ptixcc314]

You can try CPL filter to cut out reflection while shooting on monitors and water surface.

[@paulmeynell8866]

That’s brilliant , what a fantastic project thanks so much from sharing

[@easydoesit2006]

Awesome project and expertly executed bravo🎉🎉

[@TheModularDiver]

This was super cool!

[@rjmun580]

That was amazing!

[@tom-was]

loved it and immediately subscribed. looking forward to the next vid.

[@moonshot9056]

Amazing video of the plane, very cool video!

[@martin09091989]

Use Express LRS! That stuff is unbelievably good! I fly my drones and planes with it and even after the dji video link brakes up I still fly on 25mW. I just ones saw the dynamic mode going up to 100mW in the logs, but that was after flying recklessly behind a hill 2km away! 😂 Saved my ass, punshed the drone up and got it home. (no return to home) 😅

[@TheZombieSaints]

Awesome damn work guys! Really well done! 👏👏👏

All right! You guys rock! Very inspiring videos. Could I bother you (or anyone reading this) for tips on easy get-started tutorials and resources? I really want to try to make drone boats with my children :)

[@Advil1024]

Now you can go look at every weird thing in every body of water that you can find lol

[@patpat9803]

Your channel is so good, I come back regularly to watch what is new, pozdrawiam z francji !

[@NTFmain]

Amazing job. + Respect

[@markgreenwood7700]

You guys are geniuses and very entertaining!

[@kubsonfilla]

Świetne wideo. Gratulacje panowie.

[@jeryjohn]

U should also run an external antenna on your radio or even better change the module to a team black sheep long range system

[@jnnk132]

that was so entertaining. You gotta travel to other places and search for bigger wrecks!

[@AudioVideo_IT]

Very nice project!

[@_c_y_p_3]

You guys did a beautiful job.

[@Blougheed]

great video, first time seeing this channel! Subbed for more!! Thanks!

[@patryk3019]

Chłopaki pozdro z branży. Robię jako surveyor na zachódzie. Robiło się UXO, rurociągi. Teraz kamienie pod wiatraki i kable.

[@OuroborosGD]

2:10 geometry dash sound effect

[@chrisclw]

Exactly what I always wanted to build...an autonomous boat with a rc sub attached to it..

[@tommydiy6531]

Great video, you could try installing some more powerful motors