Future Plans - here's where we want your help. Please fill in the blanks![edit | edit source]
We've begun a list of the things which may seem impossible, but someone is already doing many of them. Join in and see how it changes the world! We can reach the Global Goals if enough people take part in the search for answers.
I imagine this list as a place for school kids to find project ideas. Within the list there are an unlimited number of things which could be investigated, experimented with and refined. Take my idea a step further, change it to fit your needs, most importantly, document it to help others on the road toward Zero Hunger. Top priority is that you talk about it, let others know you're working toward the goals and ask them for help.
Please feel free to link yourself in here. Tell us about your project, we're searching for the same answers you are.
Some garden options, Pinterest is full of ideas.
- Sustainable agriculture topics
- Maybe help can be found here
- Raised bed
- Vertical gardening
- Again vertical
- In a sack
- Bottle towers
- Square Foot garden
- Hydroponics/Aquaponics
Indoor vs. Outdoor gardening
- Advantages / disadvantages
Types of garden
Plants
- How do I decide what to grow?
- When to plant
- Diseases
- Where do I get the seeds?
- What works better where?
- Inside
- Tomatoes hate water on their leaves
- Outside
- Inside
- Define what each plant needs for:
- Sun conditions
- Watering requirements
- saturation levels
- depth
- Nutrients needed by various plants
- How to plant
- What works together and what doesn't
Automation, done dirt cheap
- Combine technology with gardening
- Automation
- An example
- And another
- This is getting close
- and closer
- A simple to follow video
- 3d print a step motor and sensor into the stake at the plant
- A simple squeeze of the hose with a part printed into the stake to adjust drip rate
- Make parts exchangeable for easy replacement at a minimum cost
- A simple squeeze of the hose with a part printed into the stake to adjust drip rate
- Allow the Pi to get input from the sensor and control the drip flow
- Gertboard type device as interface
- Networking
- How to find each dripper, sensor combination in the net
- How do we signal and power stepper motors at the plant
- WiFi or hard wire?
- Wireless has the radiation risk / Keep senders to a minimum
- Cloud storage
- Stats available on an app or online
- Interfaces
- How to go from PC to plant and back?
- How do I know what level my tanks have?
- The Gertboard
- Computer control systems
- PC ideas
- Raspberry Pi stepper control
- Step motor info (in German)
- An app
- Remote control
- Database, programs, interfacing
- Remote control through mobile app
- Drip adjustment with step motor or maybe something else?
- Sensor to count drops to PC which controls drip rate
- How to interface to the Pi, to count drops so it can use the number to adjust the drip rate?
- Efficiency and accuracy top priorities
- How to interface to the Pi, to count drops so it can use the number to adjust the drip rate?
- Pump - manual or wind/solar powered
- Computer controlled
- Feedback from tank feeler
- Same time each day
- Computer controlled
- Electricity - Everything, this will be new for me, but with your help. :-)
- Make it cheap, available at night and non polluting
- Wind or solar?
- Electricity storage and conservation.
- We can produce electricity in various ways, does this make an e-pump better?
- How do we get enough for 3d printing
- Make it cheap, available at night and non polluting
- Lighting
- 3D printing
- Drawing parts
- This is a simple yet powerful tool where Thingiverse parts can be edited
- Get drawings into proper format
- Pre-prep of parts for printing
- Files in public domain
- 2d to 3d conversion
- 3D printing of useful things We've added links to our suggestions at the beginning
- Can we print the tubing connections? (T's, reducers, etc) If not how can we make them?
- Do plans for those parts exist in the public domain?
- Some parts you may be able to use.
- What plastic is best, ABS? PLA probably not OK because it's based on sugar (my understanding)
- Other printed parts
- Can we print the tubing connections? (T's, reducers, etc) If not how can we make them?
- RepRap
- Drawing parts
- Water capture and storage
- Garden Barrels
- Filtering for household use
- Efficient ways to capture rain
- Water from the air
- Efficient ways to clean
- Efficient ways to use
- Additional Sensors
- Temp
- Humidity
- Water penetration
- PH
- Door/window openers, tank fill measurement and pump start/stop
- Some nice to haves, but not necessary, unless to better control climate.
- Recycle plastic
- How do we stop plastic from getting into the ocean?
- How do we efficiently clean up what's laying everywhere?
- How do we get the most out of our garbage?
- How do you sort what you find?
- How do we get people to recycle?
- Recycle plastic into things we need
- Another source
- This doesn't relate to our project, but is an example of plastic reuse.
- Can we make the hoses and tanks?
- Filament extrusion
- Walipini
- Land selection (climate + latitude + altitude, etc.)
- Choosing the right plan?
- Water
- Chemistry within the garden
- Efficient use of space
- Heating with the sun
- How do you make it easy for anyone to find an answer to a question?
- I've given them a place to meet, but how to reach their hearts?
- Education
- How to reach the young?????
How to show them our world as it is, no blinders? When and how to begin to teach empathy? Please feel free to link your genius into this page ;-)
Keep your projects as simple as possible, a child should be able to use it. We'll need to include an intended audience selection, so each garden can be classified for searching. I encourage comments, because I really want my team to help me fix my problems. Tell your friends about my wiki and the GG club. We need all the help we can get!
If you have an idea, but no team to back you up, you can count on me. Let me know and I'll find them. I can yell real loud!
Please don't miss this chance to heal humanity before it's too late for us all!!!
