Build Day this week had a performative twist. Aman, our project manager, alerted us to the ACWD WaterClips Student Video Contest. This is a contest where middle and high schoolers send in videos about chosen topics under water conservation to the Alameda County Water District. While some of us carried out tasks like dismantling planterContinue reading “PS #14: ACWD Interviews”
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PS #15: How Much Food can the Hydroponics System Grow?
When you create a system, such as our hydroponics greenhouse, you want to plan it out with a model first. For our model, we will just be looking at how much food the hydroponics system should theoretically be able to produce in a year. First, we need to find the value of all our variablesContinue reading “PS #15: How Much Food can the Hydroponics System Grow?”
PS #13: Mini Hydroponics
Today, we deepened our understanding of hydroponics by creating a scaled-down version of our hydroponics system. Using smaller PVC pipes with pre-drilled holes, we set out to model the entire system. This allowed us to visualize and analyze the flow of water throughout the entire completed system and how efficiently water would reach each plantContinue reading “PS #13: Mini Hydroponics”
PS #12: Hydroponics Explained
When it came to designing our greenhouse, we had some ambitious goals: to be space-efficient, water-efficient, and energy-efficient. We realized that the best way to achieve these goals was by incorporating hydroponics into our system. Hydroponics isn’t just a trend in modern agriculture; it’s a revolutionary method that aligns with our goals of sustainability andContinue reading “PS #12: Hydroponics Explained”
PS #11: Completed Hydroponics
Today, we finished the entire hydroponics system, allowing water to flow seamlessly from the reservoir, through the system, and all the way back to the reservoir. We used the same format as the first pipe to make two other identical pipes. We connected the first pipe with an intake hose attached to the pump, andContinue reading “PS #11: Completed Hydroponics”
PS #10: Upgrading The Greenhouse
Today, we focused on furthering the greenhouse, making a proper entrance for it, and starting to put together the hydroponics system. To start, we had to make a doorframe to eventually put to the door in. To achieve this, we used the left over planter box wood and cut it to the measurements of theContinue reading “PS #10: Upgrading The Greenhouse”
PS #9: Completing the Main Structure
Now that the dome is secured to the inner wall, we needed to trim parts off to make way for the entrance. We essentially removed the pipes that were above the 10th edge of the dome up to the top pipes, which we didn’t touch. Since we were going to append a rectangular corridor toContinue reading “PS #9: Completing the Main Structure”
PS #8: How we Modeled the Inner Wall
Before we could get started on the inner wall, we needed to have a theoretical model to plan our pieces. The dome that we chose had 10 edges for the base. This ten-sided shape is a simple decagon and what the wall has to conform to. The amount of degrees in a regular polygon isContinue reading “PS #8: How we Modeled the Inner Wall”
PS #7: Getting Back on Track
After last Build Day’s shenanigans with the dome being stolen, we quickly ordered a new one so we could get back to work as soon as possible. We rebuilt the dome today, quite a bit faster than the initial construction, a telltale sign of our improvement, if you ask me. Now that we were backContinue reading “PS #7: Getting Back on Track”
PS #6: Dome Disaster
Today’s Build Day ended up being quite short, much more than anyone would’ve thought. The early birds of our group congregated with “Good mornings” and “How have you beens” as we briefly went over the general plan for today. Last week, we had wrapped up the inner walls of the greenhouse and, now, we wereContinue reading “PS #6: Dome Disaster”
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