After the long break, the Greywater Recycling team is ready to get back to work. Wrapping up last quarter, we had completed the first draft of our design, schematics, bill of materials, and other important documents. This quarter our focus is to finalize our design and begin prototyping and testing. We are still missing an accurately assembled CAD model as …

The group worked hard to get a lot done during week 10 and finals week. First and foremost, we had the fall design review. Our poster was well organized and easy on the eyes, and we were able to talk to a few people about our project. Overall, the event went pretty smoothly. Around the same time, we hammered out …

The end of the quarter is nearing! This week, the final draft of our posters for the fall quarter design review was due. Most of the poster was completed during week 8, but we had a few outstanding corrections to make before it was ready to submit. The big tasks for the end of the quarter are to complete the …

This week, the group sat down together to draw out a schematic of the filtration system. Currently, we have planned out a four-tank system, each filled with different filter media and connected to each other via PVC piping. After the fourth tank, the water will be stored in a temporary storage tank where and Arduino will evaluate how clean the …

Although this week was one of our less eventful weeks thus far, we still conducted some minor research and worked on some other tasks. We reached out to a professor for some information on water quality and water filtration, in addition to reaching out to the Irvine Ranch Water District to ask for a tour around the facility. We realized …

During week 6, we got several administrative tasks completed. For starters, we filled out all the categories of our team website. This forced us to finish many parts of our detailed Project Specifications and Project Definition forms that we had been working on. We are making more progress on detailing the specifics of our design. Secondly, we completed our team …

Week 5 was our second week working together as a group. It was still largely about getting a grasp of what our project will be, and laying the groundwork to move forward with design concepts. Some of the things we did this week were some minor brainstorming, as well as thinking more about our overall goals for the 3 quarters. …