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Marine Rush pt.1: Creating a remote-controlled boat using a radio frequency module for wireless connectivity and a Custom built thruster

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So I've been thinking of all the kinds of rc vehicles we can build as tech enthusiasts. RC bots, drones and planes find a really common place. I thought of creating rc marine-based vehicles and then building activities and games around them. I am naming this series: Marine Rush . This is the first part, an RC ship(obviously 🥴). This is about the building of it, you'll find the link for its code within the article. The Body We start by building the body for our ship. After spending weeks trying out different materials, we and to PVC. If you need to, here's a  reel  demonstrating our material hunt journey. After getting fairly long 4'' diameter pipes, we cut them vertically and flattened them by heating with a heat gun. after obtaining sheets from the pipes, we cut it into pieces according to a pre-planned design(which we picked up off-of the internet😁) , and put them together to form our ship. Watch our building process here . Here's a pic of our final ship in ...