During the spread of COVID-19, people quarantine and stay at home in order to stop spreading the virus. It resulted in bad effect where there is no beach tourism and everyone who were dependent on this tourism stays at home now without any income. there is no human activity and the beaches are empty, it resulted in good effects. Since the ocean is full of garbage and we are at home now because of quarantine, it is our chance to follow up on this opportunity and clean the ocean. we designed a robot to help us. Our robot will solve this challenge because it has the ability to identify the position of the garbage and then catch it. instead of keeping the pollution at oceans the same, the robot will help to reduce pollution or approximately git rid of it. it will protect the marine organisms because they were affected by the pollution and since there is no pollution, they will be safe. Ferrofluid will be used in our robot to get rid of microplastic as it damages aquatic creatures, as well as turtles and birds. It reduces the desire to eat for them which reduces the growth and reproductive and mat causes some species to starve and die. It is so important to protect these marine organisms as it provides at least a sixth of the animal protein people eat as well as it absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and reduce climate change impacts.
We choose this challenge because we think this challenge is the most important challenge because it has a big problem that we can solve it and will help us after quarantine.And there are many ways to solve this problem.
e recommended who will work after us some recommendations:
1- Use a bigger scale to filter more amounts of water.
2- Use a bigger pump which will stare the water so the fluid can be more efficient.
We used Ocean Data information and Services is the entry point to access all French ocean observation data we get many information about Ocean physics, Physical Oceanography, Marine biogeochemistry and Marine biology.
We used many kinds of tools and languages like:
1- Ferro Fluid: we used it to collect the microplastics and many kinds of garbage.
2- DC pump: we used it to pump the ferro fluids to the water in the robot.
3- Magnet: we used it to attract ferro fluid after collect garbage.
4- Arduino uno: we used it to control all electronics devices in our project.
5- Ultrasonic sensor: we used it to calculate the amount of the water in the robot.
6- Relay Board: we used to control switch on and off of the pump.
7- Bluetooth module: we used it to connect relay board and ultrasonic sensor with their applications.
8- C language: we used to write Arduino codes.
9- Java language: we used it to code the applications of relay board and ultrasonic sensor.
we have a problem with the communication. In NASA space apps Cairo 2019 we had many ideas because the communication was easy, and we can share ideas easily so we can make the prototype too. We joined other competitions and we achieve high ranks because we are a complete team. Mostafa Mohamed have big experience in Photoshop and Illustrator, Hazem Ahmed have a big experience in video editing, Mohamed El-Sayed work in coding apps and websites, shahd Elawady good at writing and presenting and Hager Tawfik good at searching and writing.
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