Submarine Project Update

Phase 1 - Building a Sensor Box

Trying to focus on getting all the necessary parts to build the sensor box. So far I have gotten the camera working with the Pi although at the moment I have a bit of a power issue. My current Pi power supply only gives it 0.5Amps while the camera and the wifi card will need a bit more than that. Order new 2AMP usb hub to compensate for that.

So far the following is working:

• New Camera 
• Wifi Card with long range antenna

 

Sadly the camera disconnects right after it is detected due to power issues:

Sep 12 02:56:34 raspberrypi kernel: usb 1-1.2: new high speed USB device number 19 using dwc_otg

Sep 12 02:56:35 raspberrypi kernel: usb 1-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=046d, idProduct=0805

Sep 12 02:56:35 raspberrypi kernel: usb 1-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=2

Sep 12 02:56:35 raspberrypi kernel: usb 1-1.2: SerialNumber: 584E2190

Sep 12 02:56:35 raspberrypi kernel: uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device (046d:0805)

Sep 12 02:56:35 raspberrypi kernel: input: UVC Camera (046d:0805) as /devices/platform/bcm2708_usb/usb1/1-1/1-1.2/1-1.2:1.0/input/input4

Sep 12 02:56:36 raspberrypi kernel: usb 1-1.2: USB disconnect, device number 19

Sep 12 02:56:36 raspberrypi kernel: usb 1-1.2: new high speed USB device number 20 using dwc_otg

Sep 12 02:56:36 raspberrypi kernel: usb 1-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=046d, idProduct=0805

Sep 12 02:56:36 raspberrypi kernel: usb 1-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=2

Sep 12 02:56:36 raspberrypi kernel: usb 1-1.2: SerialNumber: 584E2190

Sep 12 02:56:36 raspberrypi kernel: uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device (046d:0805)

Sep 12 02:56:36 raspberrypi kernel: input: UVC Camera (046d:0805) as /devices/platform/bcm2708_usb/usb1/1-1/1-1.2/1-1.2:1.0/input/input5

Sep 12 02:56:43 raspberrypi kernel: usb 1-1.2: USB disconnect, device number 20

Just ordered:

• External Temperature Sensor
• Multi Sensor Board
• USB Hub
• Debugger Cable for Pi
• GIOP Cable

Researching:

• Underwater Pressure sensors
• Water Depth Sensor

If someone could provide some help with the frame, it would be greatly appreciate it, so far I have only  though as far as making it out of PVC pipes.