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lab:seedstack [2015-04-11 07:39] – [SEEDStack - open 3D printable seed/sprout system] chronolab:seedstack [2016-12-13 19:31] (current) – old revision restored (2015/10/19 11:16) chrono
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-====== SEEDStack - open 3D printable seed/sprout system ======+====== SEEDStack - Open 3D printable seed/sprout system ======
  
-Food Hacker? Low on Kitchen estate? Small Budget? Mobile/Ghetto Kitchen? A nomadic Hacker in need of protein rich and vitamin packed food supplement with a very low weight/volume footprint in your backpack, which you can grow on-site? Afraid of the Zombie apocalypse and thinking about solutions for supply needs similar to the nomadic hacker's? You want to personally make a change and stop/reduce eating out-of-local-season import fruit, which would have to travel 10.000 km to get to you but you're worried about vitamin deficiencies? Try Sprouts. +Food Hacker? Low on Kitchen estate? Small Budget? Mobile/Ghetto Kitchen? A nomadic Hacker in need of protein rich and vitamin packed food supplement with a very low weight/volume footprint in your backpack, which you can grow on-site? Afraid of the Zombie apocalypse and thinking about solutions for supply needs similar to the nomadic hacker's? Want to personally make a change and stop/reduce eating out-of-local-season import fruit, which would otherwise have to travel up to 12.000 km to get to you but worried about vitamin deficiencies? Try Sprouts. 
  
-Sprouts are considered as wonder foods. They rank as the freshest and most nutritious of all vegetables available to the human diet. By a process of natural transmutation, sprouted food acquires vastly improved digestibility and nutritional qualities when compared to non-sprouted embryo from which it derives. Sprouted foods have been part of the diet of many ancient races for thousands of years. Even to this day, the Chinese retain their fame for delicious Mung bean sprouts. Sprouts provide all the essential vitamins and minerals. They should form a vital component of our diet.+Sprouts are generally considered as wonder foods. They rank as the freshest and most nutritious of all vegetables available to the human diet. By a process of natural transmutation, sprouted food acquires vastly improved digestibility and nutritional qualities when compared to non-sprouted embryo from which it derives. Sprouted foods have been part of the diet of many ancient races for thousands of years. Even to this day, the Chinese retain their fame for delicious Mung bean sprouts. Nom! Sprouts provide all the essential vitamins and minerals. They should form a vital component of our diet.
  
 {{:lab:seedstack-prototype-2.jpg|Seedstack Prototype}} {{:lab:seedstack-prototype-2.jpg|Seedstack Prototype}}
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 ^ Print Time ^  Z resolution ^ Filament ^ Length/Volume ^ ^ Print Time ^  Z resolution ^ Filament ^ Length/Volume ^
-| ~3 hours | 200 um | PLA | 33.16m / 79.75cm³ |+| ~3 hours | 200 um | PLA | 15.5 m / 37.4 cm³ |
  
 ==== Container ==== ==== Container ====
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 ==== Mung Seeds ==== ==== Mung Seeds ====
  
-^ A ^ B1 ^ B2 ^ B3 ^ B5 ^ B6 ^ B9 ^ B12 ^ C ^ D ^ E ^ K ^ Protein ^ Minerals ^ Cal. per cup ^ +Mung seeds have been selected as the first test candidate because they don't require to be cooked in order to become edible (some sprouts do), offer a great range of vitamins and minerals and should be easily obtainable everywhere.
-| X | X | X | X | X | X | X | - | X | - | X | - | 25% | Fe, Ca, P,Mg, Mn, Na, Se, Cu | 26 |+
  
-Flushing twice a day with 500ml of tap water.+=== Nutritional Value ===
  
 +^ A ^ B1 ^ B2 ^ B3 ^ B5 ^ B6 ^ B9 ^ B12 ^ C ^ D ^ E ^ K ^ Protein ^ Minerals ^
 +| X | X | X | X | X | X | X | - | X | - | X | - | 25% | Fe, Ca, P,Mg, Mn, Na, Se, Cu |
 +
 +=== Procedure ===
 +
 +The seeds have been completely submerged in room temperature tap water for about 8 hours in a cup, then put into the seedstack container. The seeds will sprout without this step, however, giving the seeds 8 hours in water seems to have an effect on the overall mass the sprouts will yield.
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 +After putting the seeds into the seedstack container, they need to be flushed twice per day (morning/evening). To flush the seeds, about 500ml of water are poured in the topmost container (if you have more than one) and will drain automatically at the bottom of the container. This might also be a good job for an Arduino controlled valve/pump. 
 ==== 0h ==== ==== 0h ====
  
 {{:lab:seedstack-prototype-container-with-mungo-seeds.jpg?200 |}} {{:lab:seedstack-prototype-container-with-mungo-seeds.jpg?200 |}}
-The seeds have been completely submerged in room temperature tap water for about 8 hours, then put into the the seedstack container and received a first flush with the original (red) siphon.+First flush with the original (red) siphon.
  
 ==== +14h ==== ==== +14h ====
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 ===== Roadmap ===== ===== Roadmap =====
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 +  * Create water collecting bottom part - **In Progress**
 +  * Create simple compartment dividers for container
 +  * Create pressure sieve to put onto sprouts to add artificial weight
  
 ===== FAQ ===== ===== FAQ =====
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 In the early days we still used the Internet as a mere extension for our ego where we could show what we have done and how cool that makes us to a broad audience. With better cams and more and more people changing their MO away from themselves and towards HOW we are doing things, so that others could benefit from the confidence that it obviously can be done as well as free information how exactly it was done so that others may just copy and build upon it. Videos made the transfer even easier. In the early days we still used the Internet as a mere extension for our ego where we could show what we have done and how cool that makes us to a broad audience. With better cams and more and more people changing their MO away from themselves and towards HOW we are doing things, so that others could benefit from the confidence that it obviously can be done as well as free information how exactly it was done so that others may just copy and build upon it. Videos made the transfer even easier.
  
-Now we start being able to produce the things we need on a very individual level with almost no considerable bootstrapping time. If we can go to Amazon and have them build anything **exactly** to our requirements and deliver within 24 hours for a fair price: Awesome. Until then: On-Site 3D Printing FTW. +Now we start being able to produce the things we need on a very individual level with almost no considerable bootstrapping time. If we can go to Amazon and have them build anything **exactly** to our requirements and deliver within 24 hours for a fair price: Awesome. Until then: On-Site 3D Printing FTW. The 3D printer market is expected to grow from 100,000 units in 2014 to about six million units in 2018, Digitimes reported referring to the Industrial Economics & Knowledge Center (IEK) under Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute.
  
 We have basically achieved what probably has inspired most Star-Trek fans too: A system (the computer) we can ask any question and get a broad scope of possible answers to make up our own mind about it (Internet) and now: Replicators. They might not work even close to real-time yet, but who cares? Never forget: It's not your time. You can do something else in the time it takes a 3D printer to produce the thing you've tasked it to print. We have basically achieved what probably has inspired most Star-Trek fans too: A system (the computer) we can ask any question and get a broad scope of possible answers to make up our own mind about it (Internet) and now: Replicators. They might not work even close to real-time yet, but who cares? Never forget: It's not your time. You can do something else in the time it takes a 3D printer to produce the thing you've tasked it to print.
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