Great to see the Nuna Green Wall Irrigation System going up over the Easter school holidays at Avenue Primary School. We have been working with Mac Van Dam with support from a UCL EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account (Circular Economy Innovation Challenge Grant Award) to add in some edge AI to their design. This first step was getting a monolithic off grid pumping system working, next up is creating a modular system (Hydrogrid project).
We have been documenting the project as we go to remind ourselves of the different off-grid approaches we are experimenting with. Initial tests involved working out the power requirements needed to pump water up a height of 7m - turns out gravity does have an impact on lifting a head of water. (Video from tests a month or so ago)
We used the DJI Mini 4 to get some footage of the install process. The second day of filming was quite windy making getting slow close up shots of the planters in the wall tricky. Ended up shooting way more footage than I would have liked (3 batteries worth) but did some experimenting with vertical filming and filming in D-Log. Results below.
3 minute landscape
30 second portrait
Looking forward to working on the distributed micro version of this over the next few months.