Today, we had a project meeting with our mentor, where we sat down and discussed about the first prototype design that we had.
We discussed about how the stand was to be made as the remaining components for that prototype could be bought and installed easily. However, in the end we scrapped this idea as well.
This is because of the fact that the stand that was to be created would not be strong enough to support the tray of leca.
Furthermore, it is extremely costly to custom make the stands such that it is thin enough to clasp onto the fish tank and strong enough to hold on to the leca tray at the same time. Next, it only allows for minimal customisation, whereby we can only change the colour of the tray, and stand. We are unable to customise the size of the prototype where the size is fixed to that of the fish tank.
Since we have decided to scrap the above ideas, we then have to come up with new ideas that would work since we already have had experience with the previous prototypes. Through this session, we brainstormed on a few ideas, but ultimately, we decided on one idea that seemed feasible and practical. It was the idea of a table aquaponics set up. It was basically an idea of installing the aquaponics system onto a table where the fish tank would be underneath the table and the leca tray above the table.
This solves the problem of support for the leca tray, reduces storage space required for the aquaponics set up, as well as allows for a lot of customisation for the table, tray and even the fish tank. This allows our aquaponics prototype to integrate into households easily.
After the meeting today, we will be having another project group meeting among the group members to discuss further on the potential of this design.
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