1. Introduction: For my new Arduino controlled greenhouse project I lately required a new Arduino Mega Protoshield. I’ve had the nice red Sparkfun one for quite some time now but since I’m using an Arduino Mega 2560 for this project I wanted something that brought up the additional new pins and the ICSP header. The […]
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Introduction: This is the first of a series of posts to describe my second Arduino automated greenhouse. It’s simply too big a project to cover everything in one post so I’ve decided to split it into a few smaller posts. In this first part I’m going to quickly describe my water, power and network setup.
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1. Introduction: I made a water level sensor a little while a go to measure the water level in my underground rainwater harvesting tank. Thanks to the Jubilee I found time to finally setup the first part of my Arduino/Xbee wireless sensor network and the first sensor node was also meant to read from this
1. Introduction I developed this WSN for a coursework on my MSc and I’m hoping others will find this useful or at least interesting 🙂 I’ve just installed the first parts of this WSN back home to collect sensor data from various outbuildings and it will be part of my new Arduino controlled greenhouse project.
1. Introduction: I went on free sample spree a little while ago and then got myself a few “younametheDIYunfriendlypackage”-to-DIP adapters off ebay (more details on the adapters are in one of my previous posts (DIP adapters to convert less DIY friendly packages (SOP, SOIC, TSSOP, MSOP, SSOP, SOT, LCC, LGA)). This is the first little
Introduction: Texas instruments were kind enough to provide me with samples of their tmp175 digital temperature sensor. They don’t come in the most DIY friendly package hence I had to make a breakout board before I could get the Arduino to talk to one of them. The breakout board: I’m sure they are available somewhere
Introduction: I bought a few tmp102 sensors on matching breakout boards from SparkFun to take measurements around the greenhouse. Apart from the fact that this sensor is tiny, very energy efficient and responsive I mainly decided to go for these instead of thermistors because they are digital (no need for endless conversions) and since they
Introduction: I’m harvesting rainwater from a couple of outbuildings via 110mm underground pipes connected to an underground storage tank. Since I want to stay on top of the water level in the tank and also had a SRF05 ultrasonic rangefinder sitting in a box I thought I’d put it to good use and measure the
Introduction: I’m currently working on a bit of coursework which includes XBee shields and XBee 2.5 ZNet modules. Since I want one of my nodes to form a bridge between the XBee network and my existing ethernet network I bought an Arduino Uno and one of the new ethernet shields with micro-SD slot. The pictures
Introduction: Since I’m planning to extend the greenhouse Arduino system before the next wave of plants go in I decided it was time to upgrade myself to an Arduino Mega 2560. All my existing shields appear to work with it but for trying new ideas out in the wild I prefer protoshields over breadboards so
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