When: Friday, February 3rd at 12:00 PM – Sunday, February 5th at 5:00 PM (EST) This is not a one and done event. Individuals and teams with high-potential ideas will have the opportunity to access the resources required to turn them into reality. Individuals from a diverse range of backgrounds will be exposed to the pains and barriers faced by urban and rural growers. We want to facilitate a collaborative environment in which participants are shown how nature can be used as inspiration to solve challenges.
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Using case studies from ecological farmers as inspiration, participants will create innovative solutions and ideas for how this clean, portable energy can be used. We’ll be putting a prototype of the Smart Solar Bucket in the hands of our Hack-a-thon participants. This will create greater opportunities for automation and data collection, which will support an online community of builders, farmers, entrepreneurs, and researchers. We have a second generation Smart Solar Bucket which has some internet based technology applied to it. Not just for pumping water anymore, it was power for anything, whenever and wherever they needed it. So, with a bit of creativity and engineering know-how, they created the Solar Bucket, a tool that captures solar energy in a portable battery. Running feet of extension cords or driving over large tanks of water was costly and a resource-inefficient solutions. This is going to be a fun event where people from diverse backgrounds will share their perspectives and create innovative ideas.Ī year ago, the farmers at Cavaleiro Farm faced a challenge: how could they pump water remotely to their plants and animals at far distances? The event is related to food, farming, and clean energy technology.
Cavaleiro Farm, in partnership with the Food Innovation Hub at Ryerson University, is hosting a Solar Bucket Hack-a-thon event from February 3rd to 5th, 2017.