Brick-StarterSetHowTo. Blog » Blog Archive » GardenBot Is Monitoring Your Garden. GardenBot Is Monitoring Your Garden Davide Gomba — October 21st, 2010 Very interesting bottom-up product (but it’s not really a product, it’s more of an experience of nature-lovers and DIYers) do look after your garden: GardenBot is a garden monitoring system.
This means that you put sensors in your garden, and GardenBot will show you charts of the conditions in your garden — so you can see the world the way your plants see it. I did… er, I mean hi. My name is Andrew Frueh. Amazing story. via [gardenbot] List of parts - GardenBot. Parts This page is here to serve as a guide to locating the various parts you will need for this project. Some parts you will be able to locate at a local hardware store (or similar). Other parts will have to be ordered online. There are some brief descriptions of things of note, and there is a price sheet just to give you a rough estimate. This page also features basic explanations of some of the kinds of parts you will be working with.
GardenBot software package The GardenBot software package is currently not supported. Download the old package - (2011-01-13) Arduino is an open-source microcontroller. Arduino is used as the brain of the GardenBot system. The official Arduino website You will want to start with the "Getting Started" link at the top. You don't need to wait to be a Jedi master to start your GardenBot project. Heat shrink tubing is very useful, especially when you are trying to integrate electronics into dirty environmetns like the garden. Bread-boards and Proto-boards. Arduino - HomePage. Electan. Garduino Geek Gardening. Make: Projects Create an automated watering, light, and temp control system. I wanted to start gardening, but I knew I wouldn’t keep up the regular schedule of watering the plants and making sure they got enough light.
So I recruited a microprocessor and a suite of sensors to help with these tasks. An Arduino microcontroller runs my indoor garden, watering the plants only when they’re thirsty, turning on supplemental lights based on how much natural sunlight is received, and alerting me if the temperature drops below a plant-healthy level. For sensors, the Garduino uses an inexpensive photocell (light), thermistor (temperature), and a pair of galvanized nails (moisture). Total cost, including the Arduino, was about $150. All electronics can be purchased at the Maker Shed and Jameco, and everything else can be found at your local hardware store. Control Arduino remotely with HTML forms — CMD-c && CMD-v. [for everyone who is continuing to read this, it probably won't work anymore and it isn't too reliable in general.
I would suggest a better method like this : . It works for botnets right? ] Well, this is the culmination of a lot of posts I have been writing. Let’s look at this from the top down. I got this fifo idea from this post. Inside the socket client thread is a pySerial instance. To use all this software, you have to run them in a certain order. For host, choose your domain name [e.g. www.datasingularity.com].
In conclusion, this code may be pretty ragged, but the concept is what is important and it should be enough to get you started. **Update** Here is a demonstration video: