Project Plans
Some optional specifications to this idea include:
- transparent storage-- to monitor food levels
- scheduled (i.e daily, weekly,etc depending upon fish growth) feeding cycles-- for portions, intervals, and manual override
- ability to being a modular design
- utilization of video interfacing and bluetooth electronics for long distance notifications
So some aspect parts of a potential final project are displayed in hand drawings and 3D rendering below. Sketches (4) and (5) are potential ideas for the type of container I would like to use or even create. (1), (2), and (3) are developments of a type of rotary wheel that will be incased inside of the container in order to evenly distribute the fish food it will contain.
(A) is a render of a possible design of a container that I could make using press-fit construction. With OpenScad's constructive solid geometry, I modeled the container using cube, translate, rotate, and boolean difference.
(B) was also created using the tools cylinder, square,liner extrude, boolean difference, rotate and translate. It is a representation of a feed screw tool housed within a pipe or tube for food movement to the fish;
(C) is a 2D vector representation in CorelDraw of a gear that I would like to use to actuate the feed screw.
