Childish Brandino

Full Farm and website

Inspiration

Our inspiration stems from the urgent need for sustainable agriculture.

What it does

Our aquaponics farm integrates fish and plant farming. Fish waste nourishes plants, while plants filter and purify water for fish. This closed-loop system yields organic produce and fish, promoting sustainable agriculture.

How we built it

We built circuits to interface between various sensors and a main micro-controller. We then created a UI to be displayed on a local LCD. Then we sent data from the sensors to a second micro through serial communication which then sent information to a webpage which can interact with the farm. The housing for the circuits was all custom 3D printed.

Challenges we ran into

Building the signal conditioning circuits. Getting UART to work between the two micros. Some 3D prints not coming out right. Learning new technologies on the fly.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

How well we were able to divide and conquer the project. Getting each of our individual pieces of the project to work together.

What we learned

We learned a lot about working in a team environment, and each of us had to learn new technologies to make the project work.

What's next for Aquaponics Farm

Scaling our design up to a larger more practical model.

Built With

Submitted to

HackED 2024

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My contribution to this project was working on the full-stack development of the Web UI. I had to learn XML in order to communicate with the Arduino from the Soft Access Point web server I created. All in all it was a great learning experience to take on a daunting task like this.

Cyler LaRocque
My contribution to the project was the code on the main micro that interfaced with the Sensors. I converted the data into packets so they could be used by Liam to send to the web UI. I also Created the UI for the LCD.

Cole Yaremko
I worked with UART and communicating between the two micro controllers that were used in the project. This Required using the code that Cyler wrote for our web AP and the code Cole wrote for our Sensors and combining them to make a fully functional system. This was something that was new to me and I had to learn entirely in the 24 hours. I had done some serial communication before but never like this. This also involved making packets in order to tell the other board which piece of data was being sent. This I had done before but never in C++.

Liam Moore
I was in charge of team organization and cordination. Also I designed and constructed Signal Conditioning Cuircts, motor controlers and power interfaces on pb prototype boards.

Bcarpenter5 Carpenter
I worked on the 3d models that houses all of the components and kept track of the 3d printing times to use our time effectively, switching prints as soon as the other finishes

Andreas Delfin

Updates

Cole Yaremko started this project — Jan 07, 2024 06:10 AM EST

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