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  Mathew Henry

  9 years ago

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  Tiny water supply and how do you 3D print clear objects?
  Also, the water supply doesn't look to big.
  
  These products are better.
  Eco Cube C http://aquaponicsfilter.com/  Love the natural concept.
  Tableau http://pikaplant.com/tableau/ Beautiful, yet practical.
  and maybe, Connect a Pot http://www.desima.co/connectapot/ Flexible and fun

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  Sam Dill

  9 years ago

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  Surely the design & functionality of the grow pod could be achieved without 3D printing the entire thing, utilizing an incredibly expensive and non recyclable process? Or am I getting confused, and this purely served as a prototype before looking at other manufacturing techniques?

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  Angelo D'Onofrio

  9 years ago

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  You can print in clear using polyjet printing. This print would cost a fortune from the amount of support material required. In the region of £2000

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  Angelo D'Onofrio

  9 years ago

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  @ sam
  
  The challenge was to create a design that could ONLY be 3D printed. https://grabcad.com/challenges/make-the-unmakeable-challenge-1

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  Matt Anhalt

  9 years ago

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  Its quite apparent this designer has done very little gardening / starting seeds indoors.  It may satisfy an aesthetic criteria but fails where it matters. 

  1. You never water a seeding from the top, you water the plant from below

  2. The seeding usually requires an enclosure to keep the humidity and warmth in to encourage germination. A warming mat is also use with plants like tomatoes, cucumber, squash, watermelons. The gap between the soil and base would interrupt this.

  
  

  3. The vessel which holds the grow medium is sized for only a short period of the actually time the plant is in indoors. The plant is transplanted into bigger vessels as the plant grows, encouraging a deeper root base.

  
  

  4. Removing the seeding to place it into a bigger vessel looks like a pain in the ass.

  
  

   5. The amount a micro greens grown is negligible.. everyone would get a pea shoot and that would be it.

  
  

  6. How easy is it to clean? ..

  More could be said but this is sufficient.

  
  

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    Christiaan Sidell

    Matt Anhalt

    9 years ago

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    Matt, it's quite apparent you didn't follow up on the GrabCad competition.  Let me address your questions and concerns from a more realistic/logical point of view.

    
    

    1. You water plants from any direction you want, this isn't an irrigation solution.

    
    

    2. True, but do some research on terrariums and how they are usually open.  Not all require a closed environment.  Plus how do seeds grow in the wild, on their own?

    
    

    3. The design represents a concept where this isn't meant for large plants.  Also, again you miss the point of this project.  If it were realized to thepoint of actually be injection/blow molded, the scale and specs would change.

    
    

    4. You just mentioned that in your previous comment thus making this one irrelevant.

    
    

    5. Again same here, you fail to understand the concept and refuse to use reasonable logic.

    
    

    6. I would say pretty easy unless you have no access to flowing water.  In which case, don't buy it, or anything else similar.

    
    

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      Matt Anhalt

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      9 years ago

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      Nothing you said is realistic. I'm huge into gardening and have been starting my seeds indoors for the past 6 years. I did read the grabcad competition details. What I am critiquing is you product solution in relation to your product detail statement.

      1. The project description at the top of the page says otherwise: “Water is added through the top and drips onto the seedling below”.  If there is water sitting at the bottom then a cleaning solution is needed ( see #6)

      2. I didn't say that the system is permanently a closed system but in the beginning the seedlings are enclosed. There are seed starting kits on the market that work pretty good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQNnmgB61jc.  And your question about how seeds grow in the wild… you’re not going seeds in the wild, you’re growing in your kitchen, the variables are different, and the types of seeds being planted do not necessarily correspond to the area you live in. I have a watermelon patch growing in Calgary with success (harvested 3 melons so far) but with a lot of intervention.

      3. Big Plants / Small plants doesn’t matter with the scale shown… and if you did increase the scale of the produce I don’t think the function would follow suit.  There are plenty of home setups that would be much more efficient for the plants and in use of materials (additive or reductive)

      4. No this isn’t irrelevant. You will have to transplant at some point with some plants. With the plastic or peat containers, the vessel is turned upside down and given a slight squeeze, pushing the seeding out of the container. This concept fails to address this.

      5. Quit saying I’m not using reasonable logic… it’s just this product fails to address what it actually takes to grown a reasonable amount of food even for 1 person… I have a huge garden outside and microgreens inside, accounting for the loss from various sources (disease, pests, bad seeds, weather) I have enough for my wife and I.

      6. You say pretty easily... so it would be easily shown / incorporated into your design.  I do have running water I (and much of the serious gardeners) would not by this.

      I can go all day. You can take this free advice and crush out a 2nd revision or you can continue peddling this feel good / do no good product.

      
      

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