Project Development

Assignment:Complete your final project, tracking your progress.

What tasks have been completed, and what tasks remain?

There are two parts inside project Modular design part and other is electronic part.In modular design part I have made design of vertical garden in Catia. Printed this on shopbot machine. Assembled it and put soil media inside . There are two models ;both are printed and assembled.





Inside electronic part both transmitter and receiver units are designed , milled and soldered. Programming part remained for both units.



What has worked? what hasn't?

Modular part is fine and not have any trouble inside. But in electronics part I want to add Rf module for communication between transmitter and receiver units.Its little tricky and taking a time as synchronization between transmitter and receiver is not happening .All other things arte good and working . What questions need to be resolved?

1.In electronics part synchronization between Transmitter and receiver unit is not happening ,Im not master in programming so dont know how to resolve this. Itried with different steps and web sources but its can't.
2. What will be better way to spread this project in community?

3. What when there is no water remained.

All these questions are in mind and will improve this system with resolving all this .

What will happen when?

Initially in project plan there is only one modular design of vertical garden but after thinking lot and as per peoples choice there will have to more options to them . So decided to add one more vertical garden design inside. Same in electronics part first only have transmitter unit that controls motor operation and there is no awareness signal to a user. So I added receiver unit with buzzer that rings when motor on /off . All this happened two weeks before final presentation .

What have you learned?

Initially I'm zero with all these things. Weekly tasks gives lot for me .List is here:

Project amnbagement , Time management
Design softwares: Blender, Inkscape ,Eagle,Netfab ,Meshlab,Google sketchup, Catia ,Partworks etc.
Programming : HTML,CSS, Embedded C, Ardduino programming etc.
Intelluctual property
Machines: Laser cutter ,Vinyl cutter,Shopbot,Modella , 3D printer etc.
Composites and Molding casting.
Market survey.

Documentation during development:

Documented peoject devlopement steps on below given links:

-3D design
-Electronics
-Programming
-Shopbot cutting
-Networking

Demand- vs supply-side time management:

The kits to be deliver,will be prepared at the time of order,so no money is stuck as stock and it enables cashflow.Building time for kits is short so thus option is possible.Also this one is open source design so anyone can make this with contributing cause.

Spiral development:

This project is for social aspect regarding helth and cost of vegetables.So its need to spread this widely inside community .So for this will create networks of enthusiastic peoples those wants to work together,exchange their knowledge to spread this concept inside community.If anyone wants to improve design or any part he can do this and use commercilize spread this. Social media and web are options to get income with reaching peoples,find them ;set them as a trendsetters and give some kits to them in exchange of spreading words. As more peoples see the system working, more people will wonder and get interested in the project,not only for purchase but for funding and investing.

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Final project files