Exams and university projects are taking a lot of my time, but during this summer I managed to define a design which I believed was kind of definitive for the realization of a first rc prototype. However, I have started thinking about pursuing the idea of making an autonomous robots. During a summer school on maritime informatics I felt in love with autonomous underwater vehicles, so I want to try to learn and apply the basics of programming one. But I soon realised that there's still a long way to go to build a robot that can be called sea worthy, mostly in terms of money and software.

So, let's take a small step: a test bench. 

I am going to make a functional model robot that  won'tbe waterproofat first, but at least able to let me study the mechanical and software solutions one by one without the necessity to go for the entire construction in one go. Pretty obvious,  but not at first in my eyes, I started feeling the risk of building something that might not work and need to be improved.

In a nutshell, I made a skeleton like hull and I will avoid building the water proof volumes for the electronics and every component that is not strictly focused on the tail movement. I already have the servos and the elegoo uno board, while I still need to 3d print the model to test on my desk, hopefully within a month!