High-Level Project Summary
We have developed a sustainable and deployable food system for astronauts. To support other deployable crop production system(such as APH, veggie), it is needed to design and develop implements with our post experiences which can find innovative solutions to environmental restrictions. That's why we developed the system called "PLANTER". The achievement of this project is important, since the purpose of previously developed systems was not to provide food for astronauts.
Link to Project "Demo"
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Detailed Project Description
The "Planter" system can continue the photosynthesis cycle under space conditions. The system which we developed can filter air and water by itself, measure and adjust temperature, pH and pressure values, supply the plants nutritional, mineral, vitamin and water needs, provide oxygen and carbon dioxide balance and have a power source to achieve all these. And since this project will be used in space, all materials of it are enduring to radiation.
Space Agency Data
https://earth.esa.int/eogateway
https://www.energy.gov/ehss/databases
https://www.usda.gov/topics/data
https://www.nrel.gov/research/data-tools.html
We have used these websites in order to search for necessary datas.
Hackathon Journey
It was quite enjoyable. We have learned to work as a team, to find efficient resolutions for problems, to manage the time and to search in detail. Since we all interested in biology, we have chosen this challenge. We have designed this project because we thought there should be a sustainable food system for astronauts. We have come over issues with team work. We would like to thank our dear teacher Ahmet Sülü for helping with 3D designing, we also would like to thank our dear mentor teacher Mustafa Düzenli for his support.
References
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/advanced-plant-habitat.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetable_Production_System
https://asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/sciences/food-production/default.asp
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/veggie_fact_sheet_508.pdf
https://www.nasa.gov/content/growing-plants-in-space
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM3uaR0dltQ&list=PL37Yhb2zout05pUjr7OoRFpTNroq_wd9f&index=9
https://sciencenode.org/feature/the-food-computer.php
https://wikifactory.com/@botler/personal-food-computer
https://medium.com/@marielgrace/the-future-of-food-is-a-computer-cc3eda691dce
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plants_in_space
https://www.txstate-epdc.net/growing-plants-in-space/
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-astronaut-paints-a-picture-of-success-growing-plants-in-space
Global Judging
This project has been submitted for consideration during the Judging process.