Ashley Lowber
Mechanical Engineering Portfolio
Water Farm
The Water Farm is a product designed to facilitate the process of regrowing herbs or plants in a hydroponic system through providing a singe unit with a common water source for each plant. There are two iterations of the The Water Farm: one designed to be machined in Stanford's Product Realization Lab, and the second designed for production through scaled manufacturing. Both versions challenged me to consider multiple aspects of the realization processes which I studied and researched through a virtual classroom environment. Despite the constraints on the class brought on by COVID-19, I gained meaningful insight into the design process not only in terms of practicing skills for producing informative sketches and iterating by means of rapid prototyping at home, but also in utilizing more advanced features of CAD software, and ultimately creating a project designed around available materials, tooling, and operations processes.
Product Presentations
Select the first PDF to view the first iteration (machining version) of the Water Farm, and the second PDF to view the development of the second iteration (scaled manufacturing version) starting from the first iteration.