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Project Ideation
1- What sustainability-related problem or need does your project address? What were you inspired by? What is/are the SDG/s you are tackling in your project? Include images and videos of similar projects
1- What sustainability-related problem or need does your project address? What were you inspired by? What is/are the SDG/s you are tackling in your project? Include images and videos of similar projects
Since I was an Elementary student, I was irritated by those greenhouse gases that we learned in one of the very first science sessions.
Now, that I'm older and have been studying various biology branches, I tend to relate and think more of all that's related to botany and botanical issues.
I also hate how many animals and plants are endangered, because of what excessive CO2 emissions do, so, I'll try my best - InshaAllah - to make this prototype as helpful as I imagine it to be.
Honestly, my inspiration was my sessions with grade 2 students about designing and planning for a greenhouse, it was more centered on the strong structure of implementing triangles into buildings, but I secretly redirected the students' ideas to relate more to the plant itself. Obai, who is one of the glowing students in one of the classes, had an idea that aligned with mine, which was to provide the greenhouse with something that provides shade for the specific plants that need it. I had that moment of pride to teach such a student that thinks about more than one aspect at such a young age.
The SDGs related to my project are:
SDG2 (Zero Hunger)
SDG 3 (Good Health and Well-Being)
SDG9 (Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure)
SDG 12 (Responsible Consumption and Production)
SDG 13 (Climate Action)
SDG 15 (Life on Land)
SDG 4 (Quality Education)
2- Conduct a feasibility/impact assessment using the standard template and attach it below. How do you think this assessment will guide your design?
2- Conduct a feasibility/impact assessment using the standard template and attach it below. How do you think this assessment will guide your design?
Explain your impact assessment on those four pillars: social, economic, environmental, and natural resources. And, explain how this assessment will influence your project concept and goals.
Social impact:
Does your prototype directly address a specific need or improve the quality of life for its target audience?
It does, as it satisfies the need for more crops with better quality and more variety as it will make it available for the same greenhouse to grow more types of crops.
Have you considered inclusivity or accessibility to ensure your solution benefits a diverse group of people?
It's a little bit considered, and it can be modified to provide more benefits to farmers, industrial farming, and people who transformed the roofs of their houses into mini-farms.
Economic impact:
Is your prototype designed to be affordable and cost-effective for its intended users?
It's somehow affordable as some materials will be listed next to the used ones if anyone wants to manufacture them on a different scale.
Does your project contribute to local economic growth, such as supporting local manufacturing or jobs?
It largely contributes to such fields, as major manufacturers can use it to grow specific industrial crops on the specific scale that suits them.
Environmental impact:
Have you taken/going to take steps to use materials efficiently, reduce waste during production, or repurpose leftover materials from your prototype?
This can be managed by using the leftover materials for coverage and decorations. I'm trying to reduce the waste materials to 7-5% as much as possible.
Does your solution promote environmental awareness or encourage sustainable practices in its intended use?
It is meant to promote environmental awareness of the impacts of greenhouses and how to manage the heat they trap and the percentage of polluting gases.
Natural resources impact:
Are you going to responsibly use sourced or recyclable materials in your prototype?
This is not guaranteed, however, I'll try as much as I can to mention how to recycle the used materials.
Does your solution help conserve essential natural resources like water or energy?
It is intended to conserve and reuse the used water to irrigate the crops inside the greenhouse.
3- Describe the project idea and general features. How would it work?
3- Describe the project idea and general features. How would it work?
It will not totally resemble the picture, because I want to build a greenhouse that suits the needs of various types of plants inside the same greenhouse. Some plants need more shade and less light, others are completely the opposite. I also want it to be provided with light, pH, humidity, gas, and temperature sensors that work through an application (suitable for laptops and mobile phones) that specifies the exact needs of the plant itself, with classifying that plant (I'm a botany geek, so classification is a must to me). That greenhouse also will have a smart touch sensor that opens and closes the door to the greenhouse.
It's a challenging integration, but I'm also intending to find out a solution to manage the CO2 emissions coming out of that greenhouse.
4- Sketch your project: You may use pen and paper or a simple sketching tool like Microsoft Paint or Photoshop
4- Sketch your project: You may use pen and paper or a simple sketching tool like Microsoft Paint or Photoshop
Project Planning
Project Planning
5- Describe the Technical Modules that your project consists of
5- Describe the Technical Modules that your project consists of
Construction Parts
The project consists of a laser cut parts and a laser cut roof with integrated acrylic parts to let sunlight get through.
Input
(Sensing, Tactile Input, and/or Graphical Input)
The smart greenhouse will be able to detect the inside humidity and soil moisture. It will also use a light sensor that detects the amount of light directed at every angle (where the plants are inside the greenhouse)
Action
(Physical and/or Graphic)
If the humidity increases, another sensor will open some aeration openings (small circular openings)
If the light sensor detects low light levels, the acrylic parts will be uncovered to let sunlight inside (or LED lights will be directed towards the plant)
Brain
arduino UNO
Power Management
DC adaptor
6- How will you use tools like the laser cutter and 3D printer with sustainable materials to make your project eco-friendly? What materials will you use, and why are they sustainable choices?
6- How will you use tools like the laser cutter and 3D printer with sustainable materials to make your project eco-friendly? What materials will you use, and why are they sustainable choices?
PLA (polylactic acid) which is used in 3D printers can be depolymerized into its original monomers (lactic acid) through safe chemical recycling.
Also, plywood which is used through laser-cutting can be both recycled and upcycled to extend its lifetime and reduce waste. In addition to getting rid of all kinds of adhesives as the wood parts will be all connected through screws and nuts.
7- Create a cardboard prototype of your project, demonstrating the project face as well as internal movements and mechanisms. Include a demo video and photos of the prototype.
7- Create a cardboard prototype of your project, demonstrating the project face as well as internal movements and mechanisms. Include a demo video and photos of the prototype.
8- Categorize your project’s User Features into: Minimum, Complete, and Nice-to-have features. List the required action and input components per feature.
8- Categorize your project’s User Features into: Minimum, Complete, and Nice-to-have features. List the required action and input components per feature.
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
Humidity sensor that opens a DC fan
Action: air motion
Sensing: humidity and temperature
User Input: moisture and temperature
An IR sensor that detects the movement of any insects inside giving out a buzzer sound as an alert
Action: buzzer
Sensing: motion of an insect
User Input: IR impulse
Complete User Features
LCD that shows the data measured by the sensors
Action: message on LCD
Sensing: ambient light level
User Input: darkness/light
Light (LDR) sensor that opens an LED strap and some UV LEDs
Action: light
Sensing: ambient light level
User Input: darkness/light
Nice-to-have User Features
The gas sensor opens a valve to another chamber containing algae if the CO2 level is high
Action: Motion
Sensing: CO2 level
User Input: gas level sensor
Producing biofuel by directing light into the algal container
A pressure sensor that confirms a healthy growth of plants, if the pressure is high or low according to the weight of the plant itself
Action: message on an LCD
Sensing: weight
User Input: pressure
Soil moisture sensor that waters the plant if the moisture is low
Action: water
Sensing: soil moisture
9- How will you incorporate Arduino programming, sensors, and actuators to enhance the sustainability features of your project?
9- How will you incorporate Arduino programming, sensors, and actuators to enhance the sustainability features of your project?
Arduino will be used to incorporate the features of my project to make it more sustainable and less polluting as the sensors will serve to get rid of pollutants as much as possible.
The gas sensor, which will give the order to open an aperture that directs excess CO2 gas into another container that has algal media that will enhance the production of the basic materials of biofuel (through the nice-to-have features)
Also, another sustainability feature is that the humidity sensor will reduce the production of fungi and some kinds of bacteria that might damage the growing crops inside the greenhouse, reducing food waste and promoting better growth for the plants. (extending the lifetime of plants)
Using an external source of light will promote faster rates of photosynthetic processes, through the light sensor and IOT that will provide specific species of plants with the needed amount of light at nighttime, along with implementing some joints that moves certain slits that exposes the plant to direct sunlight of its daytime through another light sensor will provide the plant with sunlight through opening those slits through which a transparent part will let the light in.
Another feature using a water sensor, will direct the leaking water after irrigation reuse it for the plant (excess water will rewater the plant)
10- What are the required electronic components and materials for the project?
10- What are the required electronic components and materials for the project?
Component/Material
Amount
Link
Arduino UNO
one
LED display
one
Buzzer
one
Jumper wires
LED light bar super B1010E (white) *but white is not available at Ram electronics*
or if not available this one is needed instead:
LED SMD 1W high power white *if it is compatible on Arduino UNO*
6
6
acrylic sheets
four
11- What are the project tasks and its time-frame?
11- What are the project tasks and its time-frame?
Task
Sub-Tasks
From:
To:
Laser-cutting
Fusion design
documentation
9/2/2025
13/2
Acrylic-cutting
Fusion design
documentation
9/2
13/2
assembly and design fixing
Fusion design
documentation
13/2
15/2
Trial and error for sensors part one
Arduino coding
documentation
16/2
18/2
Trial and error for sensors part two
Arduino coding
documentation
19/2
22/2
Project finalization
Arduino coding
fusion design
documentation
23/2
27/2
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