May
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Archive for the ‘gardening’ Category
May
02
02
Growing Grit: My 8th Grade Garduino Project
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Making a self-maintained, Arduino-based garden helped with instilling “grit,” the trait of not giving up when you hit obstacles.
May
02
02
Monitor the Health & Vitality of Your Home Garden with Weekend Projects
arduino, Electronics, Featured, gardening, GreatCreate, RadioShack, Weekend Projects Comments Off on Monitor the Health & Vitality of Your Home Garden with Weekend Projects
Two Weekend Projects from our archives are ideal for challenging makers to hack their houseplants and collect data from their garden.
Apr
28
28
The Story of OpenSprinkler: an Open-Source Web-Based Sprinkler Controller
arduino, gardening, open-source sprinkler timer, opensprinkler, Raspberry Pi Comments Off on The Story of OpenSprinkler: an Open-Source Web-Based Sprinkler Controller
Nov
22
22
New Project: Potted Plant Protector
arduino, Featured, gardening, GreatCreate, RadioShack, Weekend Projects Comments Off on New Project: Potted Plant Protector
Build a digital guardian for your favorite plants! Using an Arduino and a few inexpensive sensors, you can keep your plants extremely happy with the proper amount of moisture, warmth, and light.
Nov
22
22
New Project: Potted Plant Protector
arduino, Featured, gardening, GreatCreate, RadioShack, Weekend Projects Comments Off on New Project: Potted Plant Protector
Build a digital guardian for your favorite plants! Using an Arduino and a few inexpensive sensors, you can keep your plants extremely happy with the proper amount of moisture, warmth, and light. Aug
24
24
DIY Hacks & How To’s: Arduino Controlled Solar Fountain
arduino, DIY Hacks and How Tos, Electronics, Featured, gardening, Home Comments Off on DIY Hacks & How To’s: Arduino Controlled Solar Fountain
A fountain can make a nice decorative fixture for your garden. But it isn't always easy to run a power cord out to where you want it. So I decided to run it on solar power. The system is controlled by an Arduino. This allows you to save energy by programming when the fountain will be turned on.
Aug
20
20
DIY Hacks & How To’s: Arduino Controlled Solar Fountain
arduino, Electronics, gardening, Home, water fountain Comments Off on DIY Hacks & How To’s: Arduino Controlled Solar Fountain
A fountain can make a nice decorative fixture for your garden. But it isn't always easy to run a power cord out to where you want it. So I decided to run it on solar power. The system is controlled by an Arduino. This allows you to save energy by programming when the fountain will be turned on.
May
06
06
Update: Grow controller rebuilt to last
arduino hacks, garden, gardening, green hacks, grow box, grow controller, solid state relay, ssr Comments Off on Update: Grow controller rebuilt to last
[The Cheap Vegetable Gardener] assembled his first grow controller about three and a half years ago. He’s been very happy with it and knows that he’ll be using it for years, maybe even decades to come. He just finished overhauling the grow controller design to help make sure he doesn’t burn down his garage one day. You have to admit, without knowing anything about the project this rendition does look safer than his original offering.
Pictured above is the weather-proof enclosure he used to house four mains-rated solid state relays. This box is isolated from the control hardware, providing heavy-duty utility plugs to interface with the heater, lights, fan, and water pump. He mounted the Arduino board which controls the relays to the outside of the box, using the Ethernet wire to switch the SSRs. It uses a manufactured shield he designed which will help ease the pain of fixing the system if parts ever go bad.
Later on in the build he shows the grow light and heaters used in his operation. The heaters simply screw into light sockets; something we’ve never come across before.
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