sonar and grabbing successful We've not been updating lately because we've been extremely busy, and it appears to have paid off. We have, for a couple weeks now, been homing on sonar and grabbing the safe successfully. These tests were completed entirely with sonar, as we lost our vision people, but we at least managed to log images using some great cameras we got from Datatoys last Fall.

Here are the videos. Note that some computers seem to have trouble showing them, so it may take a couple tries:

http://auv.utdallas.edu/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=2573

If that exact link ever goes down, you can always just locate that album on the main gallery page:

http://auv.utdallas.edu/gallery/

Anyway, we're flying out to San Diego tomorrow, so we'll probably not be posting until we get back, but you can certainly watch the mailing list.

Here's a picture of John and Michael tweaking one of our passive sonar boards.

If anyone was trying to access the website in the last 24 hours or so, I apologize on behalf of whoever at the school decided it was wise to shut off electric power to the campus two days before competition!

Finally, here's a picture inside the tube of the sub, though admittedly with the old tray; the new one is very similar, but with new boards on it, meaning less perfboard.

  ¶ MichaelP @ 11:45