SOLAR PLANTERN

a workshop

Sunday June 26th 2-4pm

at FabCafe MTRL Shibuya 2F

organized by HackerFarm & Urban Farming Tokyo

WHAT

Solar Plantern Workshop

- green x tech x diy

- soldering of a solar panel and some LED lights

- recycle a PET bottle and plant a seedling

AGE 7+

children must be accompanied by a guardian

PRICE JPY2,000/set + JPY500/person (including 1 drink)

Including materials and tools: LED,solar panel, soldering, soil, planter

Example: 1 child + 1 guardian working together on 1 kit = JPY3,000

PREPARE

Please bring your own empty 2L PET bottle and a plastic bag to bring it home again

LANGUAGE English

If needed parents/guardians can help translate

EVENT LINKS

https://www.facebook.com/events/527701184021876/

https://mtrl.net/shibuya/

KEYWORDS

Urban farming, tokyo, green, food, sustainable, DIY, workshop, soldering, electronics, solar panel, LED lights, recycled PET bottle, seedling, planter, soil, drainage, education

The Solar Plantern is a variation of the Kimono Solar Lantern, originally designed by Akiba for Tokyo Hackerspace, but has since been used as a light source in the aftermath of the Tohoku earthquake in Tohoku, Japan, to help kickstart a women’s group business in a village in Rwanda, and in Dharamsala, India in the Himalayas to teach Tibetan children about renewable energy in an area where resources are scarce.

The Solar Plantern uses the Kimono Solo Lantern and a plastic PET bottle to turn it into a custom design piece that charges in the day and provides light at night. It works as a planter to grow small plants or herbs and at night, highlights the plants as well as providing a source of light.

This workshop consists of building the Solar Plantern using a Kimono solar lantern kit, soldering iron, scissors, and a PET bottle. It teaches practical soldering and electronics skills, how renewable energy works, and how to recycle or upcycle waste. Won’t you join us and build something green?

Akiba is one of the founders of Hackerfarm, a high tech maker community in Kamogawa Chiba Prefecture, one of the advisors for the TechRice project with Digital Garage, and a former design consultant to the United Nations. His latest project, Hackerfarm, originally started out as a hackerspace in a rural context focused on agricultural technology. It has since evolved into an intentional community of creative artists, techies, and people involved or interested in agriculture and sustainable living in the rural countryside of Japan.

http://www.hackerfarm.jp/

http://www.techrice.jp

http://www.freaklabs.org/

Johan Rooms has been running the Urban Farming Tokyo group, an online community sharing information about how to produce food in the city, and was recently featured in the book My Tiny Garden on how to optimize green space in the city. He’s been experimenting with aquaponics, vertical pet bottle towers and tweeting arduino garden sensors.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/urbanfarmingtokyo/

http://www.johanrooms.com

2F 道玄坂ピア, 1 Chome-１-２２-７ Dōgenzaka, 渋谷区 Shibuya-ku, Tōkyō-to 150-0043, Japan

https://www.google.com/maps/place/FabCafe+Tokyo/@35.655577,139.6955446,19z