Frederick Recycled Home Farming

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Frederick Recycled Home Farming

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  • I am a 14 years old  student from Pathlight Secondary School in Singapore. 
  • Creating an Eco-Friendly and appealing to younger aged to encourage young students on home farming. 
  • In today's increasingly environmentally conscious world and the Green Plan 2030 proposed to meet UN 17 SDGs goals, my classmates and me looked at home farming topic. Initially the aim was to create an eco-friendly farming pot out of recycled items.
  • A week later, we discussed the progress of growth of our broccoli and kang-kong seeds using the 5 steps design thinking process.
  • We discovered most of us forgot to water the plant. 
  • Final aim: To design a self-watering pot to improve the success rate of home farming for young students using tinkercad and/or fusion360 software.

Supplies

Recycled home farming

  • Recycled used and clean water bottle
  • Box cutter
  • Waterproof tape
  • Recycled used and clean plastic bag


3D designing and printing:

  • Tinkercad account. Fusion360 educator account
  • A computer with internet access

Steps for Home Farming Bottle

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1) Cut Plastic Bottle into half

2) Flip the top part of the bottle upside down and place it on the bottom part of the bottle. Secure it with tape.

3) Add gravel, soil and seeds in.

3D Designing

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  • Take a solid cone to the workplane. Adjust the top-radius.

3D Designing

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  • Duplicate a set of the cone. Convert the duplicated cone into a hole. 
  • Align to the solid cone. Group both solid and hole cone. 

3D Designing

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  • Create another cone to simulate the soil for planting


3D Designing

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  • Take a green cylinder solid to make the dinosaur watering stick.
  • Scale down the width of the green cylinder.


3D Designing

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  • Take out 2 round roofs to the workplane. 
  • Adjust, rotate and group the 2 roofs to form a leaf shape. 
  • Change the color to green. 


3D Designing

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  • Take out a cylinder to form the stem of the leaf and group it to the leaf.
  • The idea is that each of the leaf is like a sweet container. But it contains water.

3D Designing

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  • Take out 2 cylinder solid and 2-cylinder hole to form the pipe to the pot. 
  • To water the plant, you can unplug the leaf-shape water container and plug it into the “pipe” of the pot.

Fusion 360

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  • Take the design further in fusion360