First of all, we didn't really finish the project. We got a lot of problems during the building session and we took way too much time to fix them. But we'll present you what we did and how you can improve on it.

We went way to far from what we expected, we tried to respect the SDG goals and so we had to remove and add a lote of things. But basically we wanted something that look like that. Here you can see the main box from different points of views. Here are the main ideas I had for the shape, the irrigation system.

https://www.media.mit.edu/groups/open-agriculture-openag/overview/ (link for the MIT project)

The project need to answer to an SDG (Sustainable Development Goals) we chose the n°9 (Innovation). We base our idea on the Open agriculture from The MIT Media Lab. "We believe the precursor to a healthier and more sustainable food system will be the creation of an open-source ecosystem of food technologies that enable and promote transparency, networked experimentation, education, and hyper-local production." they believe that we can change our growing food system can have a deep impact on our life. So we thought about an self-sustaining ecosystem in a box.

The next step was to think about what could be in our box. We needed lights, water, control the temperature, the intensity of our lights and the irrigation frequency. But our lights needed to be in the good spectrum so the plants could grow. We looked a couples of website (most off them was for weed btw) and we saw that a plant need blue light (400-500 nm) during the vegetative stage. They need more red light during the flowering stage. So we found a LED band that can has the both.

We looked for an other way then just use a simple pipe for the irrigation system but we didn't found a lot of solution. The main idea here was a water pump connected to an arduino witch get activated when the humidity was too low. We try to figured out witch design will be the best, our first idea was a simple rectangle metal pipe with an inclination of 15° so the water can go down easily. An other option will be to use a silicone hose but the bad with that was that the hose was too flexible and if it were rotated on itself, it will be hard to control it.