Today, the entire group met up within the school library to have a group meeting where we mainly discussed the idea of the "table" aquaponics set up for our invention.
As mentioned previously, there are quite a bit of advantages with regards to a "table" aquaponics set up for our invention, such as this set up being able to provide optimum support for the leca tray, reducing the storage space and allow for more customisation to the set up as compared to previous designs. However, the entire group had uncertainties as this new design could just simply be a table, with the set ups placed above and below it.
Thus we discussed about further modifications could be made, to further improve this design as well as to make it not just a table put together with that of the aquaponics system. After much discussion, we have decided that for this design, instead of just putting the tray of leca at the top and the fish tank at the bottom with the tubing for the system running all over the place, we will drill holes into the top of the table to allow the tubing to pass through, such that it seems neat and presentable. Furthermore, this also empties up the rest of the table space for things to be placed on. This thus brings another additional plus point to this design where it allows for items to be stored on it. This itself is already a modification made to the table, which value adds our prototype.
At this time, we already had a table in mind that we could use and the next step was to start searching for external help who is able to advice us further as to whether this idea was feasible.
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