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The team familiarized with the Wiki and the first discussion about the project took place. A list of suggested questions for the first official meeting with supervisors was created.
The supervisors answered most of our questions. They guided us in the direction we have to go to develop the aquaponic system. Making the system work is the main task but sensors will be required to take readings in the system. We were informed that we will be given fish to use for our project from a member of staff at ISEP.
During this meeting our idea about the aquaponic system for a kitchen was approved. We were also given the information to get in touch with Paulo in order his custom made aquarium and his fish. We were also told the name of the fish that we will receive to use for our project in order to do som research. The material list must be finalised soon but there will be some time for editing later in the month if we have any change to design.
Our query about whether the system is to be a prototype or to sell on a mass scale was answered. We will now finalize our design and produce our material list for our aquaponics prototype. We have been informed that we can build our own custom tank with materials given from the university or buy an existing tank. We will also work on our functional tests and update on the wiki, all the specifications that we want our system to have.
We were informed that the materials should be purchased in a Portuguese website or shop. The university can provide us with the water pump and we can collect in in the next week. Our first design is really nice but we have to improve it. We now need to consider the possibility of having a cylindrical aquarium. We have arranged a meeting with Pablo Ribeira to learn more about how to build a good aquarium.
We were told that our interim presentation is to last around 10-15 minutes and we discussed some information about preparing and making a correct presentation. The materials should arrive in approximately one month. We were told that it is preferred to have an automatic system compared to the manual so we must consider a main interface for our sensors (micro-controller). In the next weeks we must evaluate our new design and update our material list.
Interim presentation
We performed our presentation to all of our supervisors in order to receive feedback on our progress. Opinions from each supervisor were given to us in order to improve our performance and focus on any weaknesses before we present our final product. We were given feedback on our slides, speaking and report.
Some supervisors answered the question about team building course and they said us we need to update the material list.
We were given help with the electronic part of the project. We were told we must produce a block diagram and then a schematic of the components. We were also told of a software we can use to simulate the circuit. In the next weeks, we will be allocated a time for using the university workshop to build our acrylic tray.
During this meeting we were informed that the tank and the acrylic were available to collect at our supervisors office. It was made clear what is required of us regarding the electronic section of our report. We must include the architecture- block diagrams, detailed circuitry, a description of each section, its function and why we chose it. We also discussed some different software's that we could use for our simulations and drawings.
In this meeting our supervisors gave us their expectations on what our finished product should look like as we had concerns on the quality of the finish our prototype will have. Our prototype goal is just to have a working structure whereas the finished product has a high standard of design. We were advised to build a scaled cardboard structure of our product while we wait on our final parts. This is to give us an idea that everything fits well together before we start to build in the workshop. We now have to think about some issues that were raised about our design images.
Supervisors agreed to the solutions we proposed. Final technical drawings were confirmed.
Cutting list is correct. Project development needs to be completed.
Presentation shouldn't take more than 15 minutes including the video.
Glossary can include terms different than abbreviations too.
We were told to wait until next week for the materials.
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Start | End | Task | Description | Who |
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27/03/14 | 03/04/14 | Choose a subject for the project | Discussion with the team | All |
01/04/14 | 02/04/14 | Update Wiki | Gwen | |
03/04/14 | 04/04/14 | Implementation of Gantt chart | Software | Sean and Arlene |
04/04/14 | 04/04/14 | Define of the Task | All | |
15/04/14 | 15/04/14 | Report | State of the art : First introduction | Gwen |
14/03/14 | 15/03/14 | Report | Introduction | Natalia and Sean |
24/03/14 | 25/03/14 | Report | State of the art & Sustainability | Gwen |
27/03/14 | 27/03/14 | Report | Introduction : Structure | Sean |
31/03/14 | 31/03/14 | Logbook | Weekly Report: Structure & itemize | Anna |
27/03/14 | 31/03/14 | Report | Marketing Plan (part 1) | Natalia |
02/04/14 | 02/04/14 | Logbook | Adding/Updating Material list and Agenda | Arlene |
03/04/14 | 03/04/14 | Report | Ethics and Deontology : Sales | Sean |
04/04/14 | 05/04/14 | Report | State of the art & Sustainability | Gwen |
05/04/14 | 06/04/14 | Report | Ethical and Deontological Concerns | Anna |
06/04/14 | 06/04/14 | Report | Communication of Report | Sean and Arlene |
06/04/14 | 06/04/14 | Report | State of the Art & Project Development & Ecological and Sustainability | Sean |
25/04/14 | 27/04/14 | Deliverables | First version of the final report | Gwen |
28/04/14 | 28/04/14 | Update Wiki | Added the part “Project management” | Gwen |
28/04/14 | 28/04/14 | Leaflet | Finished and uploaded | Anna |
29/04/14 | 30/04/14 | Report | Marketing Plan (Marketing mix) | Natalia |
09/04/14 | 12/04/14 | material list | finished and uploaded | All |
23/04/14 | 26/04/14 | Report | Project development simulations and electronic drawing | Gwen |
15/05/14 | 15/05/14 | Report | Project Management | Sean |
20/05/14 | 28/05/14 | Report | components | Anna |
1/06/14 | 3/06/14 | Report | Project management | Gwen and Anna |
4/06/14 | 4/06/14 | Report | Project Development : Add Renders/Complete Development section | Sean |
6/06/14 | 10/06/14 | Report | Marketing Plan (part 3 and corrections) | Natalia |
08/06/14 | 10/06/14 | Report | Complete sections : Project Development and Conclusions | Sean |
08/06/14 | 08/06/14 | Report | Finalise Communication within Report | Sean |
12/06/14 | 14/06/14 | Paper | State of the Art, Project Development, Conclusion, Future development | Natalia |
14/06/14 | 14/06/14 | Deliverables | Uploaded Final Report and Final Paper | Sean |
15/06/14 | 15/06/14 | Workshop | Cutting the acrylic for the growbed | Sean & Natalia |
20/06/14 | 20/06/14 | Workshop | Assembling the growbed | Anna, Gwen & Natalia |
Materials list: materials.xlsx
DropBox view : https://www.dropbox.com/s/zpdsdx08uycfssf/materials.xlsx