Friday, March 28, 2014

Meeting 2: At the Farm

As a next step in our goal to create an aquarium containing a cycle between fish and plants and incorporating an arduino unit to monitor and respond to environmental changes, we met with Francois, who is the Duluth Grill's hired grower extraordinaire. Below are some pictures from our time in Francois's green house, designed and constructed for Duluth Grill's Tilapia experiment.

 


One of the great science features in this three tired design is the bell syphon, which moves water from one level to the next as the water level rises. Below is a schematic of the bell syphon.


Finally, Paul took an awesome time lapse video of the syphon using a time lapse app, which I no sooner having seen what he was doing, added the app to my phone, as well.

Here is the video:

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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousMarch 28, 2014 at 11:29 AM

    Awesome and very interesting! I can't wait to create our own fish ecosystem. I had the task of looking for some equipment in the Science storage areas. While I found lots of "treasures" and some useful monitoring equipment, the aquarium lights, pumps and heaters that we have are still missing.

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  2. scott kjApril 24, 2014 at 5:47 AM

    Yet another piece we could add to our Marshall food production system (fruit trees, garden, berries, etc.)! I'm salivating thinking about the possibilities...

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