We're building the farm of tomorrow!
15 Challengers have been selected to receive The Kit!
Thanks to our sponsors
Vertical Farming Design Challenge We've built the farm of tomorrow! See what amazing projects our Challengers completed using The Kit! |
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Thanks to our sponsors
Each challenger received a kit of electronic components suitable to build the ultimate Vertical Farm.
 | Automated Farm Ognyan Chikov See Progress |  | Project EDEN Keith Earns See Progress |  | Ambient Growth John Henderson See Progress |
 | Aquaponic Salad Garden Calla Klafas See Progress |  | The Plant Erik Lau See Progress |  | Modular Farm José Marques See Progress |
 | Vertical Hydroponic Farm James O'Donnell See Progress |  | Cylindrical Farm Kowshik Patel See Progress |  | Adapted Greenhouse Michael Ratcliffe See Progress |
 | Vertically Oriented Modular System Rick Reynolds See Progress |  | Hydroponics Using Water Bottles & Control Clem Martins See Progress |  | New Delhi Vertical Farm Ajit Singh See Progress |
 | Ferris Farm Shane Sissons See Progress |  | Solar Farm Joshua Tsai See Progress |  |
IoT Plant, Soil & Water Management System Srinivasan Kanni Udaiyarh See Progress |
Grand Prize Winner Sponsored by 
Will Receive the following 4 prizes: |
2nd Place Winner
3rd Place Winner
All Challengers who submit a completed Project will receive: 1 year membership to The Association for Vertical Farming AND $100 donation to The Association for Vertical Farming in Challenger's name. | |||
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P3 Solar Portable Solar Kit |  |
Nest Learning Thermostat | |
 | Wurth Elektronik Energy Harvesting Kit featuring the EFM32GG Giant Gecko M3 Kit from Silicon Labs |  | $250 donated to Vertical Farming Association in Winner's name | |
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EZR32WG 868MHz Wireless Starter Kit The Wireless Starter Kit Mainboard contains sensors and peripherals demonstrating some of the Wireless MCU's many capabilities. |
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“Well Im back to making things and have a day a week to work on open source projects just for the fun of it [mainly farming tools], these are mechanical devices but electronics ones will soon follow more...
“Well Im back to making things, I have changed jobs and now have a day a week to work on open source projects just for the fun of it. Seeding takes time and is relatively boring, this dibble plate more...
“No signs of fruiting yet, although the mycelium has completely colonized the substrate. I'm going to lower the temperature to 60F and raise the lighting and humidity levels to hopefully kickstart more...
“To get mushrooms to fruit, the mycelium need to propagate throughout a sizable amount of substrate. This substrate must have the nutrients the mycelium require to grow and multiply. The more...
“Before I left for Sri Lanka in June, I started some clones in agar. This picture is after about 1 week of incubation. At the same time, I started some jar cultures of wood chips hoping they more...
“So, how do you clone a mushroom? Here are the steps I will use to hopefully produce my yummy little 'shrooms. 1) Prepare petri dishes and agar growth media for mycelium 2) Sterilize agar using more...
“What are mushrooms? Mushrooms are the fruit of a very complex organism. They are known for many useful products, including medicines and water treatment. Some mushrooms are very tasty, and more...
“There doesn't seem to be much technology involved in mushroom farming, so I think I'll try and invent some... Here is a pic of my second attempt at cloning a Maitake mushroom. This is one week more...
“Ive been working on some educational material for teaching, Here are the Results. This is not one of my usual hacking Posts but I think it is a good example of how the hacking tool-set more...
“Today is a good day, The introduction of the 3rd Generation Pi is available! I cant wait to see what this does for the loop times of my vision based work on the pi. See the main page for more...
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