Track: Senior Capstone Design Competition Competition

Abstract

In agricultural farming, the use of conventional seeding process results in waste of time and increase in labor. The seed planting rate is slow and the time required for the total operation is long yet the total cost is high due to labor and hiring of equipment. Automatic Seed Sowing Machine can dig the ground and plant the seeds and cover it afterwards with soil. This undergraduate student project was inspired by 2030 vision of the kingdom of Saudi Arabia to create more sources of income and to meet local food demands. The development of this project will get us a step closer to the kingdom's vision by decreasing manpower dependency and increase in production. The project was carried out step by step from conceiving the main idea, sketching it on a piece of paper to discuss it within team members, designing each part with proper factor of safety, analyzed using 3D SolidWorks, manufactured and assembled as per design, and finally tested the prototype successfully. The results were encouraging yet leaving a lot of space for improvements such as remote control, solar power supply, and variable distance between seeding locations, and configuring the machine with GPS system.