DEEP Underwater Camera Build and Test in Lake Tahoe
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- čas přidán 5. 01. 2018
- I build and test a camera that should be good to go down 2,000FT (6000ft if I'm feeling really sporty). I've always wanted to send a camera to the bottom of lake tahoe and other deep places around the world. This is not the final chapter, as I still have a lot of ideas that I really want to try out.
Working 70 hour weeks all summer and fall (plus training) certainly didn't leave me with much extra time, but I managed to fit this in somehow and am really glad I did.
Sometimes the gopro footage audio is super bad on speakers... if it is use headphones and it should be much better
SPOILER ALERT
While everything may not have gone perfect, it was still a pretty good proof of concept, and I did manage to get down quite deep. 1,300 feet is not exactly shallow. Its not the full 1,650ft but that's not crazy deep either if we're being honest here. I certainly need to step up my tether/crane game (or do away with them completely) If I expect to keep going deeper. These deepwater rigs (6000m+) seem to always end up pretty massive with massive cranes, massive winches and massive boats. That stuff is pretty cool, but I certainly can't afford something like that right now.
The good news is I am going back to school next semester. The two semesters at Spacex were pretty awesome but I need to get this degree.
This project ended up costing about $3,000 in the end, with screw ups, extra parts, cable and boat rides included. That's not exactly cheap, but $2.30 per foot deep is good compared to the Wood's hole's JASON at $328/foot. JASON does have SO MUCH more capability tho... not really a fair comparison (although that's just the rov, nothing else...)
I do at some point want to make something full ocean depth capable, but it might not be for another 10 years. We'll need to see. I do want to make some more systems to better search for sea life. I feel that trail cams and time lapse camera style setups could document a lot of undersea life that we have not seen before.
PeltlyChase's channel:
/ @tahoedeep
(If you want to see actual footage of the bottom!)
NOTE** Standing so close to a cable that could at any moment get stuck on me and pull me down with a 40-80 lb force is incredibly dangerous. I was aware of the danger but that in no way makes it any safer. I do not recommend anyone repeats something like that and in the future I will design better systems to avoid sketchy stuff like that.
I ride a motorcycle and climb big cold glaciated mountains. I have solo ice climbed and skied with mandatory rappels. I think I am just crazy. This was up there with those risks and if I did it every day it would probably kill me within a year. Just because I did it didn't necessarily mean I wanted to. I will take significant measures in the future to avoid the necessity of such a task. It also wasn't that fun.
Just design stuff that doesn't suck! And test it thoroughly to make sure the thing you think is sweet doesn't actually suck before you fully commit to it!
Thanks for watching!
Consider supporting me and my projects on patreon! / bennbuilds
You can also send me bitcoin donations!
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Music used:
Cahb- Secrets
Aether- Catharsis
Rocket Science- Flora
Tom Day- Who We Want To Be
Shockline- Robot Love
High Maintenance- Down
Apex- String Theory
Koresma- Bridges
Bryzone- Lucid
Yes, I spelled which wich and missed it... oops
I did loose a fair bit of footage in CA. It really sucks, that footage was pretty good. I'm sorry about that. - Věda a technologie
![Dive to the Deepest Point in Lake Tahoe (over 500m or 1640ft in depth) [1080p60]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/85IjqQ6_ox4/mqdefault.jpg)
every so often i come back here with the hopes he will one day return
1. You should have tried a shallower spot for the first time around.
2. Make a cable spool with a sprocket on the side that meshes with a 3 speed lawnmower transmission then somehow hook that to some old chainsaw. And Then... just send it!
3. Get a good looking woman in a string bikini to help you and use her as click bait aswell.
1 I honestly consider this the shallow spot test, I knew it would be totally fine 60ft down in any lake and would have paid a similar amount for a boat large enough anywhere.
2 Yes, I Do plan on making a powered winch now, honestly I did not have the space in my car for it in CA!
3 Good Idea
This has me so hyped
Me and some friends are building an ROV to explore to the bottom of lake michigan.
I will be waiting for the final test if ever
What would you have said if a cop would have pulled behind you and asked "What the hell is going on here?!" :D
Also living for 3 months in a car while working on a project like this? RESPECT!
Not just any car, a Miata
I have no idea haha but I did think about it a lot!
Good to see you back!
You have incredible perseverance. Amazing.
I like this guys videos, straight and to the point
That was phenomenal!
This was awesome dude, so good to see you back! Hope you've been alright!
AWESOME. great to see you back.
Ps I saw that BOLTR open in your CZcams tabs. Good to see your a man of class
Great job dude! Keep up the good work!
I love your drive, know-how, projects and the way you document them, but I realized something today: probably what you are best at, is time management! Very impressive life juggling. "Yes, officer, I'm just painting up my underwater camera housing parts here in the ditch, nothing to worry about. Now can you please let me finish--I have to hit the laundromat shortly, and also find a place to park my mobile home before dark."
So good to see you again Ben! you're the man! keep going with your builds!
He's alive! Congrats on 15,000 subs!
great production quality
I am still waiting for the liquid helium project. I will be freakin awesome when it is done!
Brilliant 👍🏆 well done you!!
Your channel is probably my favourite on all of CZcams. I would love it if could continue making videos.🙏
Ben you’re the man
Oh shit he posted! Hell fucking yeah!
Put my notifications on for when you are ready :p I know it's been a while, but I'm looking forward to your next video :)
That housing is an absolute beast. Just a shame you can't see anything when you go down that deep.
Monetize you're videos and make a patreon.
I would monetize my videos more often but I use too much copyrighted music and honestly don't want to make everyone sit through the ads.
I was hoping for more Patreon and donations to bring in some extra jingle, but it hasn't really taken off yet.
www.patreon.com/Bennbuilds
You are waaay too humble. If your videos cost you $3,000 and take weeks to make you should do whatever you can to monetize and promote your patreon. SmarterEveryDay monetizes, has sponsors and a patreon with less interesting content then you. At least dont make the link to your patreon way at the bottom, I scrolled past it looking for it.
A lot of people including myself dont mind ads at all if it means revenue for a channel we like.
Marco Andre Hansen And CZcams ads are bearable. They aren't very long normally.
I've been missing your uploads, but I totally understand. Those higher level engineering classes are no joke - not always difficult, but certainly, time-consuming.
Wow you may be my favorite new youtuber
That was an amazing video, you did a really good job and i'd really love to see the next step. Are you planning on finishing it ?
Yeeees! Good vid
Great stuff. If you could make a big barrelled winch it would make your life a lot easier. Have the drum the cable came on as the barrel or something with gears/pulleys and a handle on it. No more winching it in a bit then dumping the slack on the boat deck!
Looks like it might need more lights if that's an option too!
Really enjoyed you watching you live life correctly.
Certainly pursuing a good winch now that I am home, I honestly did not have the space in my car for one out there! Plus I've never turned down a little suffering. You gotta start with the worst if you really want to know whats important, so long as it doesn't kill you.
Yes, lights will be very important, the water is actually pretty clear down there. I have a couple things I want to try out to get some legit clear views from down in the black.
How long does it take to save up for projects like this?(never mind read your description ,it was very detailed.)
Most underrated channel! I love it
Awesome!
Coax cable. IE, use your main steel wire as main and pass (either sleeve or tie with shrink wrap) a second, thinner wire that's isolated (like stranded wire). You'll need a signal amplifier on each end, but live feed is a go.
Where are you filming the machining stuff? Home? Space x?
Just in a friend's shop
What’s up Ben. Wish I had work ethic like you!
as soon as i saw you not roll up that 1000ft of cable i knew how much work that was gonna create lmao
goooooood video!
Great content Ben. I'd really like to know how well the Runcam Night Eagle does underwater. It's a 0.00001 lux camera for about $100. How many lux's do you think are at the bottom of Lake Tahoe? Stay safer!
Best content on youtube man, thankyou for doing and sharing this. Will send over a btc donation at the end of the month. Cant wait for the next vid.
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE continue making videos. Your content is one of a kind. I would donate $20 bucks a month to your patreon if you started posting again.
I'm working on it!
Hey Ben Great build! Laurence and I just watched it together. Lots of cool tricks in the build way to go.
My brother-in-law has a boat on the lake so does a good friend of mine if you ever need to try again. Either of both would likely love to help.
All the best! Trip
Awesome!
HE BUILT A DEEP UNDERWATER CAMERA IN A CAR WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS! Awesome job btw.
Mauricio Espinoza yes because a lathe can fit in a car
Great video Mate. Good to see a new upload! Just one question.. Why are you doing chromate conversion on the side of a road in the middle of the night??? LOL
Had to be done!
We need more :-)
Dude i love your videos. When will u be done with colage? And what can we expect from you?
next summer
Make more videos! You make the most interesting content!
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I love your videos and I got so excited when this came out, but how do you afford your projects?
I work lot and sped a lot of my money on them
BenNBuilds same I'm building an electric bike on my CZcams channel called 'MonkeyPunk' and I've been saving for a year to pay for that
Wow this guy is dedicated! Measuring the cable too. Could he have measured 100', weighed it, then weighed the rest instead of walking up and down in the dark? Also at 1300' and still not on the bottom, just drive the boat towards shore until that camera hits the lakebed.
Where did you get those connectors?
If you want to measure the length of your cable with less struggle, consider weighing it. Weight a known length (100 feet?) and use that as reference to compare your total weight.
While that does work fine, it is a bit hard to trust and I did want to keep the cable
I'm thinking of putting a motor on a bicycle, but I do not have much building experience. Got any tips on how to do that or tips on guides on the subject?
Pardon my shitty english.
Figure it out, it wont be easy but it can for sure be done. Google some stuff!
How do you accurately drill on those round surfaces?
Mill a flat
gentleman, your endurance and effort is being notice. well done, young man.👍 may be it is good enough to contact and prove to the state government or afd or university to ask for funding a 2000ft cable and a decent winch that can fit on a boat. i guess the government or the afd will also be interest to have a picture view of the bottom of the lake instead of just ordinary sonar mapping. you come this far already, why not try one more step and see if it can make a home run for this project?
may be you don`t see ir this way, but i saw a young man digging his own pocket to do a public service that is suppose to be done by the government.
Super cool video, but I was quite worried that you made the trip to the lake on your own, manipulating all that stuff without anyone to help. Be safe!!
Awesome project! I can't believe you hand-cranked that much cable. The intro was great, but so much of the text was too fast to read. Even trying to pause and such it's really hard to catch it all. Looking forward to your next videos!
How did you acquire all the parts and money for your projects?? Im in high school and don't have access to anything since my granddad died. It's kinda sad but I'm trying to do builds still.
Go to your local dump! That's what I did for a number of years, you'd be surprised what people throw out
@@BenNBuilds Yeah. love doing that haha. I´m waiting for some projects of you. I just found your youtube channel and it´s really cool. You´re very skilled.
I wish I had access to all of those machines.
add a metal detector but then the camera is made of metal but if you had the metal detector 10ft below the camera then all we need is a robotic shovel and a robotic hand to pick up the tresure...sorted!
Would you build this into a full on ROV? I looked into building one about 2 years ago but it ended up getting ridiculously expensive and difficult to build to hit even 300ft so hitting 1300 at $3000 is a huge win in my book. You’ve been a huge inspiration man. Please Keep on going with this, I’m excited to see the next chapter!
I think so, might pursue some other tether-less options first tho
i feel it would work better with a simpler setup. if that pod holds up to the pressure i guess it would make things easier to build one that has about the same weight as its volume in water if you catch my drift and then you can use a suppliereel of high sea fishing line (i think thats also neutral weight). no more cable no more winching
Of course! One of the things I am adding now that I am home is a nice big chunk of syntactic foam to make it close to neutrally buoyant. The thick cable will be good when I start towing the thing or if it ever gets stuck on stuff
keep in mind that any foam will compress and lower its boienzie (even when its spelled correctly). better make it more floaty and have a sacrificial stone or something that unhocks when it touches the bottom. or maybe not rely on that
While that is a good general rule, ROV's actually tend to get more buoyant when you go really deep down (10k-20kft). Water's bulk modulus is 2.2 GPa and most deepwater syntactic foams have a bulk modulus in the 2.9GPa range. Also metals have high bulk moduli (AL is ~70GPa). The water compresses more than the foam and metal, making the foam float more (If your craft is built to take such high pressures).
Kinda nuts, but the ROV JASON needs to crank its sink thrusters up more and more the deeper it goes. They are at full power when it is at full depth.
A simple answer to this is to just make your thing heavier, necessitating a strong crane uptop which I think is worth exploring, that's why I'm screwing around with it.
It's not easy to avoid a strong tether. The NEREUS did it quite nicely, but that was also fully autonomous.
Thanks!
wow didnt know that. its an awesome project you are doing best of luck :)
hows your gig at spacex
Make one using mineral oil so u don’t have to move air to the bottom of the ocean, can save on material cost and maybe even go deeper
HE'S ALIVE?!
Does anyone else just check from time to time to see if he still uploads?
Has this gone anywhere
I am make this camera but the glass is break in 300 feet . Please give me solution plssss
I used hand polished Acrylic with tapered interfaces!
@@BenNBuildswill you still make videos
What did you study?
Mechanical engineering- but I'm still in school
cooooool but i wanna see all the mob bosses in blocks of concrete
ahhh me too! dammit
9:09 possible new species of freshwater isopod?
Was about to say it was hard to watch this video with one hand, but then i realized must of been hard to make it with one hand
Haha, yeaaaaaa
@@BenNBuilds you have to get back to videos, their really awesome actually look up to you its all i want to do! i love science and engineering :)
unless water is pure its conductive you need oil seal stepper or wax sealed motors this deep would crush none filled p.s that real size would not hold that cable amount on mate lol
Hey bro we miss you
wish u posted more
Me too
Are you done with the organ yet, BenNBuilds?
nope, its sitting in a shed nowhere near where I live now
you can buy cable and rope that has feet marked polyester pull tape www.amazon.com/3000-1250-Polyester-Tape-Options/dp/B00LSZAABA?th=1 this shit is very strong and it has the feet marked so you can know how deep you are. I do not think there is a bottom to that lake
What happened to your van?
Left it back on the east coast
Great work man, your designs and lathe footage are amazing. Make sure you will hit the deepest part of lake tahoo.
Is that a balloon or something in the BG? at 16:20? UFO? ;o
Naw its the sun, cheap cameras often clip out stuff thats way too bright
wheres the footage?
Very nice vid you should retitle it so it can be easier to find add tags.
Like what? I'm down if its good!
@@BenNBuilds I do have to research but I found you when looking for underwater vehicles
submarine remote controlled underwater enclosure ROV, gl
🖒🖒🖒🖒🖒🖒
You’re the future iron man
Why are the "lathe videos" of such low quality? Did u grease the camera too? :D
Dont move the camera around so much. Take a look at other channels, how they do it, like Keith Fenner, This Old Tony,
uhhh.... sometimes... lol
Where have u gone!?
Work/college!
@@BenNBuilds ah fair. You have been forgiven 🤣🤣👌
UPLOAD AGAIN PLEASE
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Hey!
AAy!
A savant.
Американцы не могут без истерических криков что либо преподнести, даже не сильно сложное.
I want to get a hobby of building things but it seems impossible.
Make a paper airplane, that's not impossible!
Made some more videos
Wouldn't the GoPro *Implode* rather than explode, given that it is put under almost 50 atmospheres of pressure at the bottom. An explosion under those circumstances I find rather unlikely.
The important thing is that it would be destroyed
Fair point.
but yes, you are right it would implode.
still around?
Yes! super busy tho
@@BenNBuilds updates or nah
@@David-fy6sm Work and college, not much I can really talk about yet
Is this guy still alive?
Yes, I know him from high school
Your long run is 4 hours long tf are you an ultramarathoner
Sometimes!
Dude u still alive?
yep, working a lot
Instead of a handcrank try a cordless drill faster less effort
yea that didn't work that's why i hand cranked it
@@rcmotorsect gotcha
Watching you do the machining work😂 a bit frustrating. You kinda worked backwards and wasted a bunch of time😢. Its ok not everyone is a production machinist.