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. […]
Arduino Project 12.1 – My second Arduino controlled greenhouse Read More »
Introduction: 3D printers have taken off over the last couple of years and especially the last half year with more and more models pushing onto the market and competing in particular for the lower budget end of the scale. High quality 3D printing, dual colour printing and sizes beyond 10cm are still reserved for the
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: I’ve always had a thing for 3D pictures and movies hence my recent acquisition of a HTC EVO 3D. It’s the US Sprint version hence only works on Wifi in this coutry due to the lack of a LTE network. But since I simply want to use it as a 3D camera it was
Modifying a SLR tripod for the HTC EVO 3D Read More »
Introduction: The friendly postman left me a “you weren’t home” card yesterday so I got curious since I didn’t expect any deliveries. Farnell had given me a delivery slot for next week (28/05/2012 onwards) but a quick look into my profile confirmed that they had already sent it 🙂 Followed by the usual 24hr wait
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Introduction: Since a couple of manufacturers have kindly agreed to provide me with free samples of their ICs I’ve obviously had to look for adapters to convert the rather DIY unfriendly packages to a more Arduino friendly footprint so I can use them for my prototypes. I’ll continue to share further results as I go
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