Eric Dirgahayu’s robotic fish is made of PVC pipe and waterproof servos that are controlled by an Arduino board. Her future plans are to include sensors to measure the quality of water and a few other devices to study underwater ecosystems without disturbing the marine life. It is controlled by an IR remote.
Arduino powered robotic fish
First we prepare materials that we will use to create the head of robot fish. the material is a flatten water pipe pvc how to Flatten the water pipe you can see on my previous Intructables here
http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-flatten-the…
If you already get flatted pvc, you can download PDF patterns design head of Robot Fish at this step or at my website print image pattern be sure the size is correct , cut and paste the pattern print on pvc flatt and cut the pvc plate fits a pattern, Paste the pattern on each side of the pattern like in the picture, for buckling pvc use blowers to heat the pvc later buckling. it is the same way you make a papercarft but it using a pvc flat. to connect each section use super strong glue (nb : be carefull using a super glue). For the gill cover using a small hinge so that it could move to open the lid. make a hole on the lip and head of robot Fish like the last picture. join the part using a screw. last making a hoe for screw on the top dan bottom the head like the picture that screw hole for join the head to the body.
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