For my project I decided to focus on the current problems with the design of a plant pot and watering. To address this problem I created a product that would be placed inside a plant and would gather moisture from the air to feed into the plant itself.
I started with a range of concept sketches, I started by designing plant pots themselves and quickly moved away from this design to a devise that simply is placed into the plant.
3D printing was used for the vast majority of my prototype parts, I was able to take my drawings straight from the CAD package I was using and have a prototype created in the span of a few hours. The main printers used was Maker bot Replicator 2 and the Objet 3D printer, the two are vastly different but gave me more options when trying to print difficult parts such as the one above.
I had two main previous prototype designs before finally reaching and settling on the final. The first was a concept prototype and when I found it was viable design, I moved on to create created the second. Trying to push the design a little further while sill retaining elements of the past concepts I reached the final look.
The product will take moisture from the air in a room, it uses pellets that are sealed inside. This then filters through product and feeds directly into the plant, similar to that how anti dampness moisture collectors work.
