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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 podvodnoj laboratoriji Akvarijus 6,5 kilometra od obale Ki Larga, oko 18 metara ispod površine. NASA koristi ovo ekstremno okruženje kako bi obučavala astronaute i akvanaute i prošle godine su i nas pozvali da se pridružimo. Svi snimci su nastali sa našeg otvorenog VDU-a, robota kojeg smo stvorili 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.
VDU je skraćenica za vozilo na daljinsko upravljanje, što je u ovom slučaju naš maleni robot koji šalje video zapis uživo preko tog veoma tankog konopca do kompjutera na površini. Radi se o principu otvorenog izvornog koda, što znači da objavljujemo i delimo na internetu sve podatke o dizajnu kao i sve kodove, što dozvoljava svakom da menja ili poboljšava dizajn. Napravljen je uglavnom od dostupnih delova i oko 1000 puta je jeftiniji od VDU-a koje je koristio Džejms Kameron pri istraživanju Titanika. VDU nije nov koncept. Tu je već decenijama. Naučnici koriste ova vozila da istraže okeane. Kompanije za naftu i gas koriste ih za istraživanje i izgradnju. Ovo što smo napravili nije jedinstveno. Ali način na koji smo ga napravili jeste.
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.
Brzo ću vam ispričati kako je sve počelo. Pre nekoliko godina, moj prijatelj Erik i ja smo odlučili da želimo da istražimo jednu podvodnu pećinu u podnožju Sijera Nevade. Čuli smo priču o izgubljenom zlatu iz pljačke iz vremena zlatne groznice i želeli smo da odemo tamo. Nažalost, nismo imali novca kao ni alata da to uradimo. Erik je imao prvobitnu ideju za dizajn robota, ali nismo shvatili koji su nam sve potrebni delovi tako da smo uradili ono što bi i svako drugi našoj situaciji: pitali smo za pomoć na internetu. Tačnije, stvorili smo sajt openROV.com i podelili smo svoje namere i planove. Prvih nekoliko meseci, tu smo bili samo Erik i ja koji smo pričali na forumima ali smo uskoro počeli da dobijamo povratne informacije od proizvođača i hobista i onda od pravih profesionalnih okeanskih inženjera koji su imali predloge za to šta bi trebalo da uradimo. Nastavili smo s radom. Dosta smo naučili. Nastavili smo s prototipima dok najzad nismo odlučili da želimo da odemo do pećine. 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.
Otprilike u to vreme, naša mala ekspedicija postala je prava priča i zabeležio ju je Njujork Tajms. Bili smo jednostavno preplavljeni interesovanjem ljudi koji su želeli komplet sa kojim bi sami mogli da naprave ovo otvoreno VDU.
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 da projekat postavimo na Kikstarter i kada smo to uradili dostigli smo cilj za finansiranje za otprilike dva sata i odjednom smo imali novac da pravimo ove komplete. Ali onda smo morali da naučimo kako da ih pravimo. Morali smo da naučimo proizvodnju na malo. Ubrzo smo shvatili da naša garaža nije bila dovoljno velika za naš projekat u razvoju. Ali uspeli smo to da uradimo, napravili smo sve komplete, zahvaljujući uglavnom Tekšopu koji nam je puno pomogao i ove komplete smo razaslali svuda po svetu prošle godine pred sam Božić, tako da je to bilo tek pre nekoliko meseci. Ali već počinju da nam šalju video snimke i slike iz celog sveta, uključujući i ovaj snimak ispod leda na Antarktiku. Takođe smo saznali da pingvini obožavaju robote. (Smeh)
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?
Još uvek objavljujemo sve dizajne na internetu i ohrabrujemo svakoga da sam napravi ove robote. To je jedini način na koji smo mogli ovo da uradimo. Kroz princip otvorenog izvornog koda stvorili smo ovu distribuiranu mrežu istraživanja i razvoja i napredujemo brže nego bilo koji sličan finansirani projekat. Ali robot je zapravo samo pola priče. Pravi, dugoročni potencijal nalazi se u ovoj zajednici "uradi sam" istraživača okeana koji nastaju širom planete. Šta možemo otkriti kada postoji na hiljade ovih naprava koje 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 verovatno pitate šta je bilo sa pećinom. Da li ste našli zlato? Pa, nismo našli zlato ali smo odlučili da je ono što smo našli mnogo vrednije. To je obris potencijalne budućnosti istraživanja okeana. To je nešto što nije rezervisano samo za Džejmse Kamerone ovog sveta, već nešto u čemu svi učestvujemo. To je podvodni svet koji istražujemo zajedno.
Thank you.
Hvala vam.
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