The Cleaner Picker Upper

Ava
Age 10
Lake Egmont, Canada

Ava has put a lot of thought into how the Cleaner Picker Upper can be the most effective ocean cleaner. With a magnet to collect waste metal, vacuums for other waste and even a filtering system to clean pollutants in the water while carefully maintaining the salt levels in the ocean. Amazing!

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Cleaner Picker Upper

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The Inventor
Ava
Lake Egmont, Canada
The Maker
Jean Deslauriers
Retired physicist
Saint-Lazare, Canada

Invention Story

The Idea!

A vacuum on low so it sucks up plastic and the fish can swim away. It has a magnet for metal. It takes all the plastic and metal and puts it in a special pocket and it takes dirty water and cleans it. It takes all the bad stuff and cleans the water for the fish.

Ava has used the Inventor's Log to tell us more about this wonderful ocean invention.

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Humble beginnings

I really liked Ava’s idea of using an underwater vessel to capture plastic and metal waste. Thinking about ways to make a ...

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Propelling the project

Next I needed a propeller. This was a perfect project for my 3D printer but first I needed to design it. I regularly ...

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To explain the Cleaner Picker Upper in more detail ava has created this fantastic comic-style story.

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Conference call with Ava

Today I had my first conference call with Ava, the Little Inventor of the Cleaner Picker Upper. It was great to ...

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On a video call Ava got to see the process that maker Jean has been using to create the Cleaner Picker Upper and to chat about her invention idea.

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The ship control room

I did the design of the control room on Fusion 360 then fabricated the parts (desk, side panel, floor, pilot chair ...

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Picking up metal debris: the electromagnet

I liked Ava’s idea of using some sort of magnet to capture metal debris from the ocean water ...

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The vacuum pick-ups

For the two arms extending in front of the vessel that will suck the water in to filter plastic waste, I used two small ...

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Filtering the waste from the water

The water containing waste material gets into the vessel by way of the vacuum pick-ups, then underneath ...

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Planning the electronic circuitry

Models are always more interesting when they are brought to life with sound and motion. I introduced a ...

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Programming, debugging and testing the microcontroller

The tiny microcontroller chip will be the brain of the model and will control all the ...

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Final assembly and testing

Satisfied with the initial test with the microcontroller, I have assembled the electronics (lots of wire cutting ...

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Making a stand

I wanted a nice stand to support the cylindrical vessel. I used a piece of pine wood, made nice edges with a router and apply ...

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Project completed: The Cleaner Picker Upper in action!

Well, this has been a very interesting project. Ava's idea of a submarine to clean ...

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Ava has already started thinking about other people and creatures to help with her inventions. We can't wait to see them!

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