iPot
Venture Category: Food and Agriculture
Community: Sensorica
This venture is currently dormant. See all the work previously done and decide if you want to reanimate it :)
Build a platform for learning and researching plant growth.
The main objective is to design a physical-digital platform for learning about the researching plant growth.We want to do this by designing a connected plant pot, called iPot.
The iPot is self watering (uses condensation), local temperature control, light supplement and nutrient cartridges.
Messaging: Discord (Sensorica server, look fore the Greens for Good channel)
For more generic discussions: Main Sensorica mailing list or Open forum
Social media: Sensorica Facebook page
Project is dormant, waiting for someone to reanimate :)
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The short-term economic model for this venture is based mostly on public funding and crowdfunding.
The long-term economic model for this venture is built around open innovation and distributed manufacturing (DIY).
In short, for the long run, we're geared towards providing:
DIY kits (can be transactional kit sales) that provide required vitamins (non-digitally manufactured components) to build a particular tool (Zimmermann, 2014; Gibney, 2016).
Specialty parts / components, hard-to-find, custom (ex. BackYard Brains or OpenQCM both sell the most specialized and hardest to source components for their respective open hardware tools).
Help with calibrating and validating (scientific) hardware (can be transactional service) to provide security to prosumers who build their own tools. This provides prosumers with the confidence that their measurements or functionality are acceptably reproducible, accurate and precise.
Education / Training (ex. Open Source Ecology), include support. This can also follow the consulting business model (Fjelsted et al., 2012).
Ecosystem services: provide trust, validation, discoverability, help, a place to discuss and collaborate, etc.
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