FIG. 07 · Modular system · aquaponic garden
Babylon
An aquaponic wall garden small enough for an apartment hallway. Fish feed the plants, plants clean the water.
dinner grows in the hallway
SPEC SHEET
Aquaponic wall garden · modular planters on a grid frame · grow light, pump, pH and water temperature run by a Raspberry Pi
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Some neighborhoods are a long bus ride from a head of lettuce. Babylon is a garden for those apartments: a wall of planters with its own light and water, small enough to stand in a hallway.
The first one was real. Grow tubs on a shelf rack over a fish tank, out on a balcony. A Raspberry Pi ran the pump and the light and watched the water. It grew food. It also taught me how much I couldn't figure out alone.
The version on the wall is what it was turning into. Planters you can move around the grid, a reservoir big enough that you don't think about it, and an app that tells you when to add water, when to feed it, and when something is ready to pick.
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