Pacific Garbage Patch

Cleaning our oceans!

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About our project

Due to increase in trash collecting in oceans, the team is tasked with designing a device to gather, store, and recycle the garbage in order to clean up the Pacific Garbage Patch (while could be used for any ocean). This could include a facility to turn the plastic into fuel. The idea is to remove all the trash in the pacific garbage patch, helping the ecosystem.

After the testing the solar panel, we received 16.8 volts which is sufficient to charge the battery.
3D printed mechanism contains two gear sets and a shaft to faciliate the rotation of the grabber.
Arduino based camera system allows us to take pictures every minute.
The RC boat includes support structures to hold the platform on top.

GALLERY

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Solar Cells

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Gearbox mounted on the RC Boat

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Solar panel mounted on the platform

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Clips on the backside of the platform which are designed to hold the support structures

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Camera mount

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CAD Model

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Arduino & Camera Setup

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Initial Design of gears and shaft

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DC Gear Motor

Documents

Meeting Minutes

  • September 7
  • September 11
  • September 14
  • September 18
  • September 20
  • September 27
  • October 4
  • October 5
  • October 9
  • October 11
  • October 16
  • October 18
  • October 23
  • October 25
  • October 30
  • November 1
  • November 6
  • November 8
  • November 13
  • November 15
  • November 20
  • November 27
  • November 29
  • December 6
  • January 22

    • Presentations

  • C3 Presentation
  • Presentation II
  • Presentation III
  • Midpoint Presentation
  • Final Presentation

    • Reports

  • Preliminary Report
  • Final Proposal Report
  • Midpoint Report
  • Hardware Review
  • Hardware Review II
  • Final Report

    • Miscellaneous

  • Bill of Materials
  • CAD Package
  • CAD Drawings Package
  • Final Operation and Assembly Manual
  • Bill of Materials II
  • UGRADS Poster

    • Our Team

    Northern Arizona University/College of Engineering and Informatics.

    Jake Goodman

    Document Manager

    Salman Alotaibi

    Web Designer

    Stephen Sauder

    Project Manager

    Nader Alajmi

    Client Contact

    Mohammad Alajmi

    Budget Liasion