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So this video was taken at Aquarius undersea laboratory four miles off the coast of Key Largo, about 60 feet below the surface. NASA uses this extreme environment to train astronauts and aquanauts, and last year, they invited us along for the ride. All the footage was taken from our open ROV, which is a robot that we built in our garage.
Ovaj video je snimljen u Aquarius podvodnom labaratoriju udaljenom oko 6 i pol kilometara od obale Key Larga, ¸oko 18 metara ispod površine mora. NASA koristi ovo ekstremno kruženje za obuku austronauta i akvanauta, a prošle godine su nas pozvali da idemo s njima. Fotografija je snimljena s našeg ROV-a, robota kojeg smo izradili u našoj garaži.
So ROV stands for Remote Operated Vehicle, which in our case means our little robot sends live video across that ultra-thin tether back to the computer topside. It's open source, meaning we publish and share all of our design files and all of our code online, allowing anyone to modify or improve or change the design. It's built with mostly off-the-shelf parts and costs about 1,000 times cheaper than the ROVs James Cameron used to explore the Titanic. So ROVs aren't new. They've been around for decades. Scientists use ROVs to explore the oceans. Oil and gas companies use them for exploration and construction. What we've built isn't unique. It's how we've built it that's really unique.
ROV je skračenica od Daljinski Upravljano Vozilo, što u našem slučaju znači da naš mali robot šalje video snimku preko ultra tankog kabla natrag do računala koji se nalazi iznad. To je otvoren izvor, što znači da mi objavljujemo i dijelimo sve naše datoteke dizajna i sve kodove online, dozvoljavajući svakome da prilagođava ili poboljšava ili mijenja dizajn. Sagrađen je uglavnom od komercijalno dostupnih dijelova i košta otprilike 1 000 puta manje od ROV-a koji je James Cameron koristio za istraživanje Titanica. Znači ROV-ovi nisu nova pojava. Postoje već desetljećima. Znanstvenici koriste ROV-ove za istraživanje oceana. Naftne i plinske tvrtke ih koriste za eksploataciju i konstrukciju. Ovo što smo mi napravili nije jedinstveno. Način na koji smo ga napravili je jedinstven.
So I want to give you a quick story of how it got started. So a few years ago, my friend Eric and I decided we wanted to explore this underwater cave in the foothills of the Sierras. We had heard this story about lost gold from a Gold Rush-era robbery, and we wanted to go up there. Unfortunately, we didn't have any money and we didn't have any tools to do it. So Eric had an initial design idea for a robot, but we didn't have all the parts figured out, so we did what anybody would do in our situation: we asked the Internet for help. More specifically, we created this website, openROV.com, and shared our intentions and our plans For the first few months, it was just Eric and I talking back to each other on the forums, but pretty soon, we started to get feedback from makers and hobbyists, and then actually professional ocean engineers who had some suggestions for what we should do. We kept working on it. We learned a lot. We kept prototyping, and eventually, we decided we wanted to go to the cave. We were ready.
Želim vam ispričati brzu priču kako je sve počelo. Prije par godina moj prijatelj Eric i ja smo odlučili da želimo istražiti podvodnu špilju u podnožju Sierra. Čuli smo priču o izgubljenom zlatu iz vremena Gold Rush pljački, pa smo željeli tamo otići. Nažalost, uopće nismo imali novaca ni alata za učiniti to. Eric je imao početnu dizajn ideju za robota ali nismo imali sve razrađeno, pa smo učinili ono što bi bilo tko napravio u našoj situaciji: pitali smo Internet za pomoć. Konkretnije, kreirali smo web stranicu, openROV.com te podijelili našu namjeru i planove. Prvih par mjeseci smo se samo Eric i ja dopisivali putem foruma, ali ubrzo smo počeli dobivati povratne informacije od tvoraca i hobista, a zatim i profesionalnih oceanskih inženjera koji su imali sugestije što trebamo učiniti. Nastavili smo raditi na tome. Nučili smo mnogo. Nastavili smo raditi na prototipu i konačno odlučili da idemo u špilju. Bili smo spremni.
So about that time, our little expedition became quite a story, and it got picked up in The New York Times. And we were pretty much just overwhelmed with interest from people who wanted a kit that they could build this open ROV themselves.
Naša mala ekspredicija je tada već postala atraktivna priča, pa je sve to završilo u The New York Timesu. Bili smo prilično zatrpani interesom ljudi koji su željeli gotov primjerak da mogu napraviti svoje vlastite ROV-ove.
So we decided to put the project on Kickstarter, and when we did, we raised our funding goal in about two hours, and all of a sudden, had this money to make these kits. But then we had to learn how to make them. I mean, we had to learn small batch manufacturing. So we quickly learned that our garage was not big enough to hold our growing operation. But we were able to do it, we got all the kits made, thanks a lot to TechShop, which was a big help to us, and we shipped these kits all over the world just before Christmas of last year, so it was just a few months ago. But we're already starting to get video and photos back from all over the world, including this shot from under the ice in Antarctica. We've also learned the penguins love robots. (Laughter)
Odlučili smo staviti projekt na Kickstarter, i kad smo to učinili, u 2 sata smo prikupili novac koji nam je bio potreban, i iznenada, imali smo novac da napravimo prve primjerke. No tada smo morali naučiti kako ih napraviti. Mislim, morali smo naučiti kako proizvoditi male serije. Brzo smo shvatili da naša garaža nije dovoljno velika za našu operaciju. Ali uspjeli smo, napravili smo primjerke, zahvaljujući TechShopu, koji nam je bio od velike pomoći, i poslali smo te primjerke svuda po svijetu prije Božića prošle godine, dakle prije par mjeseci. Već smo počeli dobivati nazad i fotografije iz cijeloga svijeta, uključujući i snimke ispod Antarktike. Također smo naučili da pingvini vole robote. (Smijeh)
So we're still publishing all the designs online, encouraging anyone to build these themselves. That's the only way that we could have done this. By being open source, we've created this distributed R&D network, and we're moving faster than any venture-backed counterpart. But the actual robot is really only half the story. The real potential, the long term potential, is with this community of DIY ocean explorers that are forming all over the globe. What can we discover when there's thousands of these devices roaming the seas?
I dalje objavljujemo naše dizajne na Internetu, potičemo sve da naprave takve i sami. To je i jedini način na koji smo ovo mogli uspjeti. Time što smo otvoreni za vanjske izvore stvorili smo mrežu distributera R&D, i napredujemo brže od bilo koje kompanije koja ima potporu partnera. Ali sami robot je samo pola priče. Pravi potencijal, dugoročni potencijal, je u zajednicama "Uradi sam" oceanskih istraživača koje se formiraju po cijelome svijetu. Što možemo okriti sa svim tim uređajima koji lutaju morima?
So you're probably all wondering: the cave. Did you find the gold? Well, we didn't find any gold, but we decided that what we found was much more valuable. It was the glimpse into a potential future for ocean exploration. It's something that's not limited to the James Camerons of the world, but something that we're all participating in. It's an underwater world we're all exploring together.
Svi se vjerojatno pitate: špilja. Jeste li našli zlato? Pa, nismo pronašli nikakvo zlato, ali smo zaključili da je ono što smo otkrili vrijednije. To je tračak za potencijal budućnosti oceanskog istraživanja. To nije ograničeno samo za Jamese Camorone u svijetu, nego nešto u čemu možemo svi sudjelovati. To je podvodni svijet koji istražujemo zajedno.
Thank you.
Hvala vam.
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