Today, we had another meeting with our mentor after we passed the preliminary round of the Projects Competition.
In this meeting, we discussed about how our project will progress thereafter and also the feasibility in building of the prototypes that we have designed previously.
Regarding the direction of our project, we basically set a timeline up for ourselves as to when each stage of our project must be completed by.
Here is our timeline:
April (Finalising of prototype design, materials that are to be used)
May (Contacting of external help, preparation of materials)
June (Building of prototype)
July (Semi-Finals)
Regarding the building of the prototypes that we have designed previously, our group has decided to scrap the prototype design with the "terraces" formation.
Here's a picture of that design:
The reason why we chose to scrap this design was due to a few reasons. Firstly, the design was not feasible. Besides just the lica sliding along, the hook might not be able to support the weight of the lica at all resulting in the entire prototype to fail. Secondly, the time taken for the water to travel one cycle around the various terraces would take too long and also there is a chance that water will remain stagnant because water will only travel when the first terrace is full. This will also result in the lack of nutrients by the fish waste for subsequent terraces as they might already be used up by the plants in the first terrace. Furthermore, our project emphasises a lot on simplicity on the process of the creation of the prototype and this design is quite complicated. Last but not least, plastic is used for the creation of the terraces and it is hard to find the suitable type of plastic for the terraces.
After this meeting, project members have gone back home to check out the feasibility and practicality of the other prototype design.
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