Smart Garden using Seeed Studio WIO Terminal
On top of that, Seeed Studio's WIO terminal works with sensors and actuators that don't need complicated connections or advanced electronics skills, making them perfect for learning as you just need to plug them in and load the code to start using them.
In the workshop we will first teach teachers how to use and program some of these sensors, and then we will teach them to integrate them to create an intelligent plant monitoring system that can give us information such as ambient temperature, amount of light, relative humidity and soil moisture, and also warn us when the plant needs to be watered.
We will also have some other sensors of different types for teachers to try during the workshop if they want.
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POWAR STEAM
We are an R+D studio in educational innovation focused on the planet, which designs methodologies, workshops and learning objects for communities, schools and homes. We help in the conceptualization and implementation of small school and community innovation laboratories (SiLabs), with which we want to empower people in the use of emerging digital manufacturing technologies such as 3D printing, code and electronics. And we also help implement school gardens for learning and research related to food, its process and sustainability in search of food security for all. Our purpose is to empower people through knowledge, skills and tools that allow them to be more resilient to the changes of the 21st century, in search of a planet-centred future for all.
http://www.powarsteam.com/
Pablo Zuloaga Betancourt
Award-winning Colombian Creative Director, university professor, and Audiovisual Producer, with a master’s degree in Design for Emergent Futures, based in Barcelona. With more than 15 years of experience creating ideas, campaigns, products, services, and innovations for brands and NGOs around the globe, I started my career in CityTV, a TV channel in Bogotá, Colombia, as a producer and content generator for different TV shows, then I switched to work in advertising at Mullen Lowe SSP3, where I started as a copywriter, and quickly became Creative Director for various local and global brands, and some of my work was awarded in the most important creativity festivals. In 2016, I moved to Guatemala to serve as General Creative Director for La Fábrica y Jotabequ, GREY Guatemala. After nearly four years in this position, I moved to Spain for graduate school and received a master’s degree in Design for Emergent Futures from The Institute of Advanced Architecture of Cataluña and ELISAVA School of Design and Engineering in Barcelona and a Fab Academy certificate from the MIT Center of Bits and Atoms, and their "Academy of How to make (almost) anything," in 2020. Now I have been living in Barcelona for the last few years doing consultancies in branding, communication strategy and creativity, and also doing lectures and workshops around innovation, digital fabrication, and the future of food and education, while I work in a methodology for teaching planet-centered innovation.
http://www.pablozuloaga.com/More Event Info
More Project Info
https://powar-steam.gitbook.io/smart-garden-using-wio-terminal/
O que o/a inspirou a fazer este projeto?
This project is inspired by the search for new ways to transfer technological knowledge focused on the planet to people, and especially to the educational community. It is also the initial part of the elaboration of our project POWAR, the plant observatory of weather adaptability for resilience.
Quais foram alguns dos desafios que encontrou e como lidou com eles?
The great challenge the first times we tried to do this type of project was the difficulty of teaching electronics, versus the time of the workshop, something that with the terminal WIO is solved by its ease of use and programming.