Nate D.

11/14

Today I had to redesign the lid as the measurements were incorrect. I also started a new section on my page for weekly updates on the water bears.

11/13

Today I designed and 3D printed a new lid for the Water Bear container.

11/10

Today Charlie and I setup the new bambu h2d 3d printer. We did not finish as a part is missing and we need to order it.

11/7

Today I separated some of the water bears into a separate dish to look at them under the microscope and see if there was a significant increase in the amount of water bears (There wasn’t).

11/6

Today the glass container for the water bears arrived so I spent the block prepping the container for them by adding water, algae, and making sure that the temperature and PH were hospitable for them.

11/3

Today the water bears arrived and I began my next project of creating a sustainable habitat for them so that they can reproduce and at the end of every 2 weeks I can release a batch into the fresh water tank to help reduce the amount of algae.

10/29

Today in WISRD I worked on a few different things. I started class by checking on my livestream setup and fixing it after someone touched some of the settings. I also started to test Anne Marie’s incubator to see what I need to fix.

09/29

Today I did research on the missing parts for the computer for the livestream. I also did some research on how to breed water bears which I will start next week.

09/22

Today I realized that the hard drive i was trying to format for the pc is unusable and I decided to order a new one. I also started to build a new grow station.

09/08

Today I did some more research on the pyrolysis reactor getting a sense of what materials I need and seeing what WISRD has of what I need.

09/04

Today I did a lot of research on my next project the pyrolysis reactor and I also started on my pitch to the WISRD board.

08/29

Today I did more work on the raspberry pi livestream and figured out that I have to get a more powerful computer to be able to support what Im trying to do. I then started researching my next project after the livestream, the Pyrolyzer.

08/25

Today the water pump for the self sustaining tank was broken so me and Oli worked together to fix it. I took out the pump and cleaned and fixed it while he cleaned out the tank. We then took the mineral tests and found out the the PH is extra high today so were to monitor the tank and see if any changes happen.

08/22

Today me and Oli water tested the self sustaining tank. I also helped to clean the freshwater tank and I started researching the octopus project.

08/21

I helped do research for the saltwater fish tank and I learned about the year and what were going to be doing in WISRD.