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Acknowledgement
Alhamdulillah, finally we have already finished this project successfully. Special thanks to Encik Rizal bin Mokhtar, as our advisor and also as an advisor for the robotic club MRSM Alor Gajah. He has given many ideas and advice on how to build this robot because we are new in this project. A thousand thanks to Dr. Muhammad Fahmi bin Miskon, from Department of Mechatronics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka because has given many ideas and advice on our project. Special thanks to other teacher that also gives many contributions to us from all aspect. Beside that, we also want to thanks a lot to our parents because give contribution from aspect money and materials and also who gave a lot of support to us until we complete this project and we highly appreciate it.

ABSTRACT OR PROJECT SUMMMARY

ABSTRACT
Hydroponics is a method of growing plants using mineral nutrient solutions, in water, without soil. Terrestrial plants may be grown with their roots in the mineral nutrient solution only or in an inert medium, such as gravel, mineral wool, or coconut husk. After doing a research, we had known that the waste products from the fish can be a fertilizer to the hydroponic system. The waste product of the fish will accumulate with the water and this will increase the toxicity for the fish. This water is led to a hydroponic system where the waste products from the fish pond are filtered out by the plants as vital nutrients, after which the cleansed water is recycle back to the fish pond. So, our mission is to combine hydroponic system and aquarium into a one machine. This machine is called FOOD CREATOR. This machine can clean the aquarium while growing plants. The plant will absorb all the fish waste inside the aquarium so the aquarium will clean. Besides that, we dont have to use any human energy to work this machine. We only have to program the machine and the machine will do everything by itself. The owner of this machine doesnt have to manage the aquarium and water the plants. It also eco-friendly because the water used is being recycle all the time. We use rain water because it has non-chlorine and its safe for plants and fishes. We use waste materials to build this machine. The cost to build this machine is very low. At the same time it can increase the economy. The owner of this machine doesnt have to buy the fish and vegetable from the market because the sources of food are inside in this machine.

ABSTRAK
Hidroponik adalah cara untuk menanam tumbuhan dengan menggunakan nutrien mineral, di dalam air, tanpa menggunakan sebarang tanah. Tumbuh-tumbuhan terrestrial boleh ditanam dengan akarnya di dalam larutan nutrien mineral atau di dalam medium semaian seperti kapas dan sabut kelapa. Selepas melakukan kajian, kami tahu bahawa najis ikan boleh menjadi baja kepada sistem hidroponik. Najis ikan tersebut akan bercampur dengan air dan ini akan meningkatkan kadar ketoksidan ikan tersebut. Air ini mengalir kepada sistem hidroponik di mana najis ikan daripada kolam ikan tersebut akan ditapis oleh tumbuhan sebagai nutrien penting, selepas air bersih berkitar semula ke kolam ikan tersebut. Jadi, misi kami adalah menggabungkan sistem hidroponik dan akuarium sebagai satu mesin. Mesin ini dikenali sebagai PENCIPTA MAKANAN. Mesin ini boleh membersihkan akuarium sambil menanam tumbuhan. Tumbuhan itu akan menyerap segala najis ikan yang terdapat di dalam akuarium tersebut supaya akuarium tersebut bersih. Selain itu, kita tidak perlu menggunakan sebarang tenaga manusia untuk menggerakkan mesin ini. Pemilik mesin ini hanya perlu programkan ia dan kemudian mesin ini akan melakukan kerjanya secara automatik. Pemilik mesin ini tidak perlu menguruskan akuarium dan menyiram pokok. Ia juga mesra alam kerana air yang digunakan akan dikitar sepanjang masa. Kami menggunakan air hujan kerana ia tidak terdapat klorin dan ia selamat untuk tumbuhan dan ikan. Kami membina mesin ini dengan menggunakan bahan-bahan terbuang. Kos untuk memmbina mesin ini sungguh rendah. Pada masa yang sama ia boleh meningkatkan ekonomi. Pemilik mesin ini tidak perlu membeli ikan dan sayur-sayuran dari pasar raya kerana makanan-makanan tersebut sudah terdapat di dalam mesin ini.

PROBLEM STATEMENT

Nowadays, all the people buy the grocery from the market. So, they must use the money to buy all these grocery. They had to pay for all these things in this critical economy. But, how can a poor people buy all these things if they dont have money? This problem will make their life even become poor. We had done some research and we separate its into three parts.

Energy
Many houses now have a garden. Sometimes, the owner of the house must be lazy to manage the garden. So, the best way to manage their garden is by take a gardener and pays them to manage the garden. By using the FOOD CREATOR, the owner of the garden doesnt have to pay the gardener; the machine will do all by itself. Thats why we said that our machine can save human energy.

Environment
Deforestation is the removal of a forest or stand of trees where the land is thereafter converted to a nonforest use. The removal of trees without sufficient reforestation has resulted in damage to habitat, biodiversity loss and aridity. It has adverse impacts on biosequestration of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Deforested regions typically incur significant adverse soil erosion and frequently degrade into wasteland. By using the FOOD CREATOR, we can decrease the amount of the carbon dioxide at the atmosphere. This is because the FOOD CREATOR only needs a small space to make it. By using this method, we only used less land because every element of this style of growing can be closely controlled, it can produce larger yields, making the same amount of vegetables in just 1/5th of the space. With that, more oxygen will released by the plant and carbon dioxide will reduced.

Economy
The farmer that uses traditional soil gardening only can plant their crops at the farm. How about if a storm hit the farm? The farmer cant go out to their farm to do their work like usual. Maybe also their crops will collapse. The farmer will have a lot of lost. By using FOOD CREATOR, we can plant the crops even inside the house because it doesnt need any soil to plant. So the crops will save from the storm.

IDEA DEVELOPMENT

CONSTRUCTION FLOW

PROBLEM STATEMENT
VISITING TO UTEM, MELAKA

COLLECTING AND INTERPRETING DATA

PLANNING AND DESIGNING

CONSTRUCTION AND PRESENTATION

DESIGN PRINCIPLE

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TOP VIEW

SIDE VIEW

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3D VIEW

MICROPROCESSOR: ARDUINO UNO

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Features Of THE food creator

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FOOD CREATOR has multi-functional function, which is to feed the fish, plant the crop, and show the period of the crop before we can harvest it. To complete the entire mission, some features are needed to make sure the machine can functionally operate. Some of the FOOD CREATORs features are: FEATURES
1)Fish tank

LOCATION AT THE MACHINE

At the middle of the machine

FUNCTION
To accommodate all the fish that needed for this machine. The waste products from the fishes are very important to make sure the crops get enough nutrients to growth. To avoid the overflow of the water happen when the rainy day. If the overflow of the water happens, the fish will get out from the tank. To support the grow bed from being collapse. The grow bed need a large base and a strong supporter to support it. The place where the crops being plant and grow. Contain polystyrene to accommodate the crops. To give a pressure to the water so the water can flow into the grow bed. It also can give oxygen to the fish tank so the fish can live longer. To feed the fish automatically. This feeding box system can feed the fish automatically without using any human energy.

2)Overflow pipe

At the left of the fish tank

3)Polystyrene

At the bottom of the machine

4)Grow bed

At the top of the machine

5)Water pump

At the bottom of the fish tank

6)Feeding box

At the side of the fish tank

7)Pipeline transport

Between the grow bed and To flow out the water from the polystyrene grow bed into the fish tank.

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REFERENCES
INTERNET
http://tallahassee-sustainability-group.wikispaces.com/Aquaponic+Food+Production

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroponics http://www.arduino.cc/ http://myduino.com/

PEOPLE SOURCE
Dr Fahmi bin Miskon, lecturer at UTeM, Melaka Encik Muhammad Rizal bin Mokhtar

VISITING PLACE
Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Hang Tuah Jaya, 76100 Durian Tunggal, Melaka.

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