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The beginning of robotic automation design. A small scale industrial arm was purchased and the initial design began.
The arm to be used around the cultivation.
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Began the first stages of an actual automated nutrient mixer. Designing a water treatment and mixing 5 gallon tank system. It was not the greatest concept and often leaked.
Creating the outflow for the mixer.
Designed the mixer built into the bench. Not the best design I’ve ever had.
Wiring up the power controller.
Initial mixer system was created in the shower to prevent drainage issues if a seal was breached.
Working on the pumping and piping.
The early maker area.
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In the first attempt at innovating cultivation technology, single tube T5 fixtures are added to the edge of the trestle.
The added lighting projects a more full canope to the plant.
The first flower had started to form.
The fixtures were projecting the light inside the plant.
Under the light.
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After getting close to the light again the plant needed a trestle in order to bring the branches back down.
Plant needing tressling
Laying out the materials. Bamboo for the sides, mesh netting for the middle.
Threading like it’s sowing.
Tressle completed.
Hung below the light.
Moving the plant in and through.
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A project going into homemade supplemental CO2 manufacturing. Creating some CO2 generators using yeast and sugar. Placed in a grow with bad air flow they can increase growth by replacing the CO2 the place consumes.
Just add hot water to sugar and yeast.
Perfect water temp is key.
Mixed and bubbling
Placed inside the grow.
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Home made nutrient mixer
This was the beginning of working to automate the feeding process. The steps I had been learning thus far were so manual. I knew there had to be an easier way. This was the first device built based on a growers recommendation. It’s a basic mixer setup that moves the fluids around the bucket allowing for even mixing.
Small pump to move things around
Later I would realize this design was not practical for small scale, hand feeding style operations. Solution doesn’t need to be constantly mixed, and constantly running the pump raised the temperature of the solution to unsafe levels. This was the beginning of researching long term solutions to the problem of automated feeding.
The enclosed bucket
Pumping the solution around