Leafy Vegetables Keeper. ( Amina).
Leafy Vegetables is a very important items for having a healthy meal, so mothers care to keep it always in their kitchens whatever the troubles. it causes random, takes a space inside the fridge which disturb mothers. Also, its life time is very short so, mothers may go to the market purposely to get some day by day, that is disturbing for her especially if she has a daily work.
There are 2 types of food inside fridge, items need to be cold, the other items just to keep it safe. No need to keep Leafy vegetables cold, which is the key for the idea.!
so I thought about making a product as a case enables the user keep an amount can cover more than a month usage of leafy vegetables outside the fridge. this case can be a decorative piece inside the kitchen and can have other nice features suits mothers need and nature (Added Value).
The Common User:
Mothers.
Current Solution:
the current method of keeping Leafy Vegetables inside fridge is using towels!+ getting yellow very fast.!
so, as I thought to make the mother work easier and helpful with more option giving her a better mode while she cocks.
solution key:
pumping Aromatic Oils above the leaves makes its life time longer (up to 6 month), the same used way for exporting.
so, the concept may be as a case contains on oil pumper and heater to evaporate the oil.
Added value can be:
Fresh. (Aromatic Oils)
Decorative plant Piece look.
Telling Secrets Sports & reminder.
Fresh Mint Smell.
Decorative Piece!
Looks as a beautiful Vase form makes not as ordinary container.
Relax!
Having the benefits of Aromatic nice smell to pump some outside the case, there is a study that Aromatic Oils enhance relaxation feeling and happiness.
Telling Secret!
adding a smart option can record the stories mother may needs to tell and keep it as a secret to the silent Leafy Vegetables as Prince Charles believe "Tel your secrets to the vegetables, they are more honest, at least you sure it is silent forever" ! or recording her schedule and the case can remind her back by voice or mobile notification in time.
Features:
Reducing Fridge Usage
•Keeping the fridge more cleaned
•Keeping Leafy V. fresh for a longer time.
•No buying Leafy v. day by day.
•Using the big idea as a decorative peace
•Applying telling secrets to v. practice
•Having a fresh mint smell inside the kitchen
Construction Parts
Heater to evaporate the oils.
Fixing pallet of the leafy V inside the product.
a storage container for the oils.
timer Sensor for pumping the oil every (...) min.
Ventilation holes.
Water Container.
UI Screen.
buzzer.
recording system.
power switch. (on/off).
Power Source.
Smart case inside.
Transparent cover for aesthetic look.
Input
(Sensing, Tactile Input, and/or Graphical Input)
texting request / voice request for remindeing her of her schedule
Action
(Physical and/or Graphic)
Oil Pump, alarm sound in time, writing on the screen to remind the user of her schedule.
Brain
Arduino UNO
Power Management
charging.
after brain storming with the instructor that is the first available form jumped in my insight.
Minimum Features: are the least amount of features that would demonstrate the coverage of all the technical modules and their complete integration
Complete Features: are the set of features that will complete your original project objective and vision
Nice-to-have Features: are the extra set of features that will make the project cooler, yet they need extra time, effort, and/or resources to finish
Minimum User Features
Example: Lamp changes color when the user gets closer
Action: RGB LED
Sensing: Ultrasonic Sensor
User Input: None
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Complete User Features
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Nice-to-have User Features
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Task
Sub-Tasks
From:
To:
Component/Material
Amount
Link
Heater
1
pump sensor
1
UI Screen.
1
buzzer.
1
recording system.
1
Push Button, Recording
1
power switch. (on/off). 1
Power Supply. 1
Acrylic
PLA