One of the best ways to grow the best vegetables as well as healthy full house plants is by hydroponic gardening. Many people seem to think that this is a
Seg...stick.: Do-it-yourself self-balancing...things...have been around almost as long as commercial self-balancing things. Obviously the homemade versions are not as smooth, reliable, or failsafe as the real thing, but they are still pretty captivating. And they…
Botterfly: Make a shy Botterfly that flutters its wings when you come too close! We used a micro:bit with out Bit Board and two servos to make this butterfly's wings move. The micro:bit has a built-in light sensor that we use as a makeshift proximity sensor to…
Here's proof that you can build cool stuff with simple tools. This self-balancing unicycle uses an Arduino and a five degree of freedom IMU from Sparkfun to keep the rider upright. Well, it'll k...
Easy Robotics With Cardboard and BBC Micro:Bit: Who are cardboard robots for? CARDBOARD ROBOTS is a set of free robot plans and building techniques easy to replicate worldwide with recycled materials and basic electronic components. Designed to be made at school with students aged from 10 year…
Use the IO Expander and Relay Expander with the Arduino to control up to 65,280 relays!
Make a Ticklish Robot: I'm a huge fan of combining simple DIY electronics with common household materials to make fun STEM projects. Lately, I've been playing around with paper robots as a way to make robotics more accessible to kids (and grown ups too!). The Ticklebot wa…
Most businesses don't have a traffic problem. They have a conversion problem. These 9 conversion tricks will help you solve them.
The sunflower follows the light using a servo motor and two photoresistors.
Micro:Bit Puppet "Text Messaging"!: Nearly all of our wireless communication is done using radio waves*, including phone calls, text messages, and WiFi. With its built-in radio transmitters and receivers, the Micro:Bit microcontroller makes it super easy to build all sorts of projects…
Make a paper octopus that retracts its tentacles.
Do you want to grow asparagus in aquaponics? Check out our website to get tips about growing asparagus in your aquaponics system. Learn the temperature of the air and water. Which issues asparagus have and what to do about it.
Started with the BBC micro:bit and ready to connect to other devices and components? Depending on what kind of project you're working on, there's different ways to connect your micro:bit. Alligator clip leads Also known as crocodile leads, these leads come in packs of 12 and can connect to each of the five contact pads
IoT LoRa Sensor Module and Gateway: Ever wanted to know the temperature of your house everywhere in the world ? Want to add a feature to your weather station, or monitor the air of your workshop ? Let's have a look to this instructable ! This project is initially designed for internet…
The Complete Smart Home: This project can turn on and off the simple 6A loads like ceiling fans and lights depending upon the relay ratings. Up to 16 loads can be switched on and off from any phones with Android, iOS, Java, Windows or anything web based. Android have app fo…
Backpacks are ideal to carry and organize all our travel gear and gadgets. But the heavy backpack may ruin your whole hiking trip. Hipstar is a personal
IGreenhouse - Intelligent Greenhouse: Home-grown fruits and vegetables are often better than those you buy, but sometimes you can lose sight of your greenhouse. In this project we will make an intelligent greenhouse. This greenhouse will automatically open and close his windows and door…
Arduino Nano Based Microbot: This instructable was created to be entered in the Robot Challenge. If I win, the parts will of course, go into robots like this one. Notes on how to include some of the very components in the prize packages are given in the last step. I am 28,…
How I Built My Hydroponic System. Starting a vegetable garden. Hydroponic growing system built and the veggies.Here's about building a hydroponics system.
A hydroponic drip system uses small emitters to drip onto the plants. Such a setup is not only widely used in outdoor gardens but in the commercial hydroponic greenhouse as well.
My wife and I stopped at a pepper farm and talked to the owner about soil and growing Capsicum in general. The farm was about 1 acre in size, possibly slightly more. For fertilizer she (the owner) uses a 25-8-8 which surprised the heck out of me. I asked her if she uses any cow manure she said no, because it was too slow to start working. The soil didn't look much different than mine and she said she didn't add anything more than fertilizer. While she and my wife chatted I walked around and inspected some plants. There was a white fungus on the underside of some of the leaves. Some of the plants didn't look too well with leaf spotting and some minor curl, but not much of that; far less than on my plant. She waters twice a day. She did say something interesting; she said this years crop wasn't nearly as good as last years because of the ongoing heat wave (50 days of 37c - 39c). This confirmed for me that excessive heat does make a difference in overall plant health. This farm is producing no less than 5 different varieties of peppers and nothing is done to stop cross pollination. On this farm the various varieties were side by side and in some cases intermingled. One patch had prik kee nuu and prik haum (hill tribe variety) mixed in together. My wife was given a handful of the prik haum, but growing the seeds won't produce a true cultivar; nuts! I didn't learn as much as I was hoping, especially about soil, but it was an interesting visit. Here's some pictures; The farm house with a chili field in front; The bigger field to the left of the house; The left field from a different angle;
Raspberry Pi Powered IOT Garden: One of the primary objectives of this project was to be able to maintain the well-being of a garden using the power of the Internet of Things (IoT). With the versatility of the present tools and software, our planter is integrated with sensors that …
Paper Flower With LED and Conductive Tape: What could be sweeter than a light up LED flower? Make your own with Brown Dog Gadgets conductive tape kit.
Handheld EMP Device: EMPs (Electromagnetic pulse) are quite popular in the world of science fiction. Wouldn't it be cool to have one of your own? That's what I thought when I started building it. I wanted to make an EMP which will be portable and which can be hidden und…
Strawbees Hydraulic Flower: This fun project was created for the Strawbees Instructables Build Night in May. Build your own flower that opens and closes when you move a plunger. This is a great project to teach children about hydraulics and pneumatics. You'll need: Strawbees …
1.Magic Lantern The Magic Lantern is the forerunner of the modern slide projector. It has a long and complicated history and, like lots of fascinating inventions, many people were involved in its d…
This model holds a functional usefulness not readily apparent. By sitting backwards with legs through the opening, the backrest now provides a sturdy support for the elbows while using binoculars or cameras to observe nature around you.
Build your own Halloween-inspired robots as a class, after-school, or family robotics activity!
Raspberry Pi Powered IOT Garden: One of the primary objectives of this project was to be able to maintain the well-being of a garden using the power of the Internet of Things (IoT). With the versatility of the present tools and software, our planter is integrated with sensors that …
Arduino Propeller Message Display (POV): In this project I want to show you the Persistence Of Vision (POV) to generating a rotating message in the air using only 10 LEDs. It is also called "POV stick". The apparatus consists of flashing and rotating 8 LEDs at a frequency such that the hu…
Course on MIT App Inventor and Arduino: I have made many tutorials for creating apps using MIT app inventor and connected the app with arduino to make things work, I often get email stating something went missing when they follow my tutorial, Here's a step by step tutorial on getting star…
We've been there. You plant seeds hoping they'll sprout, only to be disappointed. That's why we're sharing our best advice for successful seed germination.
