Team Frying Pan

Sebastian Chung, Indya Tomes, Queenie Dong, Massimo Rigoli

These are the original plans we had but we had to move on from them after we realised the problem we had about not having the correct materials for it.

Reflections: 

Massimo Rigoli

Day 1 - 

On the first day I didn’t really know much about hydroponics until Mr Walter came and explained how they work and what they do. After that we had to take a paper and choose a hydroponic to work on. We couldn’t actually choose one until every member of the group all agreed to build something together. We all came to an agreement and I think we didn’t have as much of a problem compared to how the other groups were.

Sebastian Chung

Day 1:

In the course of the foundry week I have learned many things about hydroponics & have experienced many ups & downs, plans failing & testing the capabilities of our farm, here is a summary of my days at the foundry.

Mr. Walter came in & taught us about hydroponics & the different designs that you can make with them, including the drip system, which pumps the water directly into the plants, & the Deep Flow Technology system, which uses lots of water to give the plants a continuous heavy flow of water. We also put plant seeds in sponges so that we could let them germinate. We also were put in groups & were told to make plans for a hydroponic system. I managed to come up with a plan that was very unique & me & my group mates presented my idea to the class.

Massimo Rigoli

Day 2 -

 After we chose the hydroponic we were going to work on we started to saw and drill different pieces of wood to hold up the reservoir and make it stable in order to get just enough water into the tank so that it could go through out the hydroponic system that we chose.

Sebastian Chung

Day 2:

Today we just went on a field trip on the black dolphin to collect water samples all around hong kong. It was mostly uneventful apart from someone getting seasick, forcing the trip to end early. After we got back we used tinker-cad to make a digital version of our group design, but I didn’t finish.

Massimo Rigoli 

Day 3 -

Our group continued to finish off the wooden stable for the reservoir and then after that we got the reservoir and then we would saw holes into the reservoir so that we could fit the plants so that they could grow inside of the hydroponic. fit it so that it could get the water in and then after that we got the air pump into the hydroponic. We didn’t manage to find a proper way however to attach the air pump.

Sebastian Chung

Day 3:

Today was the day we had to build the design. I was really excited to build it until I realised that the foundry didn’t have the one piece that was crucial to the model/ We had to decide on a different design which we did. We started building it & luckily the foundry had all the required pieces.

Massimo Rigoli

Day 4  

Our group managed to finish our project after we figured out where to put the reservoir in a good position and got our hydroponic to work successfully and might even get it to work until the end of march.

I think the hardest part of the week was when we had to see the errors along the way and change the design due to that and the funnest part was sawing the wood and also the pipes and glueing the pipes and wood together and also making the project.

Sebastian Chung

Day 4: Today was the day were we really had to start building, we used a very powerful saw to cut things up. We had quite a few problems along the way, including pipes that wouldn’t stick together & a drill that wouldn’t work, but surprisingly we finished earlier & ran some tests on it to make sure that it would work fine. For the remainder of the day me & my group helped other groups out.  I found the project to be very fun and enjoyable.

Indya Tomes