The Guardians of the Lake| Trash Cleanup

Project Details

The Challenge | Trash Cleanup

Oceanic garbage patches are collections of marine debris that come together due to ocean currents; they have devastating effects on ocean ecosystems. Your challenge is to design a mission to help clean up garbage from the ocean!

The Guardian

It is a prototype that can navigate in the lake, it is responsible for collecting the trash that is in the water and it is manually controlled by the user.

The Guardians of the Lake

It is a prototype created with a base of pvc pipes with measures of 3 inches, joined with 45 degree tubes and tubes in the form of "Y". The platform is sealed with a galvanized mesh sieve so you can store the garbage and filter the water, its design allows you to navigate the lake with pulsations directed to a propeller through an arduino module and bluetooth through an application controlled by The user. it was installed an electric glass elevator with 2-bar welding so that it has a square shape and, therefore, the functionality of lifting the garbage is not a difficulty for the prototype.

the way the ship is headed is by 6 servos, 4 of them programmed for the propeller (which has the function of advancing the ship), 2 servos for the electric glass elevator.

2 servos will be programmed forward and backward, 2 servos programmed from left to right and 2 servos programmed to raise and lower.