Category: Builds

Aquaponics System Build

A couple of months ago Dennis presented a course on building a desktop aquaponics course which was a demonstrator of the technology that turns fish food into organic vegetables and fresh fish. Dennis was also featured on Let’s Talk Hack where he went into how Black Soldier Flies supplements an aquaponics system, to use kitchen…

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Squiggles : a quadruped with attitude

Philip brought along his 3D printed Mini Quadroped (http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:38159) to H4H on Tuesday – it runs on 4x 1.2V NiMH batteries and can autonomously roam the room using ultra-sonic range sensors to avoid collisions.  It uses eight servos controlled by an Arduino Nano, so each leg has two axes of movement (2-DoF)! Ok, so I…

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Bread from the H4H solar oven

On Saturday 13 July Schalk, Guy and myself(Kobus) baked bread- Bread dough- R10. I arrived at house4hack 10h45 and the baking just started. The solar ovens were only adjusted about 3 times.

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