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\ Biodiversity Builders / How can we design systems to improve local biodiversity? /

Define・Research

We rated teacher's example mini project and started a research to created a mood board for our future 3D printing product.

FeedBack/Week to Teachers' Product
1. To put more than 2 tubes on the spinning to make it more stable (easier to hold on without shaking) and to increase the force form the motor at the same time
2. 360D spinning might hit yourself easily

Mood Board:

Intro・Planning

Today we draw some sketches on paper with all our idea to improve plants biodiversity, we have five designs in the paper based on the mood board we done yesterday. Including a super beehive, Seed Roll, Seed lottery, Seed Bomb and a LEGO plants climbing wall.

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Planning・Prototype

We start to make our model on Fusion, we designed a beehive+Plant Climbing model, which provide both function for plants to live and bees too live. Creating a small ecosystem for bees and plants. we had done research on many stuff, like we used the real scale of the beehive.

Prototype

We almost finished our prototype of our 3D model totally by our self, though the process we mainly used the polygon and pattern tool to create this model. The middle part of the model is for bees to live and outside part allows plants like morning glory or tomato to climb up. To be able to use this model's full function to you need multiple of them to create a "cluster" to create vertical area

Prototype Finalize

We finalized our model, google site and created a Google form to collect feedback from others.

Reflection Area

We thought about many ideas, but we found that most of them don’t fit for cities, because most of them need to be already quite an area of solid or plants.
We stated to find idea by thinking how can we turn some device we might see in normal time in to a device that can help improve biodiversity.
Though the process I mainly gives idea to my teammate, but we cowork on everything like we do 3D modeling to together. (My computer is ****)
Through the process we used pattern tool a lot to create the beehive in the middle of the product
We haven't test this device with real plants and bee yet, but we already have some idea to improve it like to make it more slim to decrease the printing time and to make some DLCs (different size of beehive and without beehive) to make it fit more condition.
This product improve urban plants biodiversity by creating vertical space for plants to live and bees can help plants to spread out better.
We done a great cowork together but we still can improve our speed by being more focus though the process
Thought this workshop I learned how to use fusion better and I

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