Part 4 of Building a Simple Raspberry Pi IOT device with no soldering needed. Adding an MQTT based dashboard using freeboard and PubNub.
Detects if there is a need to water the plants and if so, the water will be sprinkled onto the plants automatically without human help. The Problem In today’s era everyone wishes to live in a green environment, and hence wishes to have at least a small garden in their home. Even if they don’t
Automated Garden System Built on Raspberry Pi for Outdoors or Indoors - MudPi: Do you like gardening but can't find the time to maintain it? Perhaps you have some houseplants that are looking a little thirsty or looking for a way to automate your hydroponics? In this project we will solve those problems and learn the basics of…
A Tutorial on How to use Blynk with the Smart Garden System in Python. Shows the way to install Blynk and examples of Python Code using "requests"
GroveWeatherPi - Solar Raspberry Pi Based Weather Station - No Soldering Required (Updated October 24, 2016): Updated Kit to SkyWeather May 27, 2019 (SkyWeather Page) Building a Solar Powered Raspberry Pi Weather Station - GroveWeatherPi (Updated March 12, 2017) - See Update In Next Section Software and Hardware Update March 12, 2017 The Raspberry Pi is a …
My latest Pi project involves creating a weather station in a way very different from most others. I will cover various parts of this project in my next several posts. The weather station completed and mounted outdoors. The most common way that a Raspberry Pi (or any other computer) is interfaced is via a pre-built system that has a serial or USB connection. This is the fastest and easiest way to do this. But what fun is doing things the way everyone else does? I had an old weather station that was relatively cheap (less than $100) and did not have any drivers for Linux. I ran it on an old PC for several years, but it finally stopped working. The wireless part was never very reliable and it was a pain to keep replacing batteries. I was able to salvage the anemometer (wind speed) and rain gauge and hack them into my new system. For temperature and humidity readings I use the AM2315 from adafruit. For barometric pressure I use the MPL115A2, also from adafruit. Both of the devices interface via the I2C bus. I have to give a plug for adafruit. It's a great place to get parts to connect to the Raspberry Pi. The interface board and Pi on a mounting plate. The anemometer and rain gauge are simple contact closure interfaces. Each tiny bucket of rain and each rotation of the anemometer produce a single pulse. These are connected simply through GPIO pins and drive interrupts which count the pulses. The interface board that connects to the Pi is actually very simple. It mostly just passes GPIO pins to screw terminals. The MPL115A2 is the tiny blue board next to the ribbon connector. Adafruit also provided the perfect weatherproof enclosure. I will have to drill holes to feed wires in, but those will be sealed with silicone. In the near future I will write up posts on some of the problems I had to overcome to complete this project. Handling GPIO interrupts Interfacing to the AM2315 via I2C Interfacing to the MPL115A2 via I2C Calibrating the rain and wind sensors Logging to my MySQL database server Logging to Weather Underground Providing a nice web interface to display the weather data Also, I will post my source code for others to use and/or learn from. This has been a very fun project and I expect to use the weather station for many years to come. Of course, Murphy had to strike - when I went to mount the system outdoors, it was raining!
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Beautiful, luscious gardens can thrive even in tight spots! Read on to learn more about vertical gardening and how you can make it work for your small space!
[Jeremy Morgan] is building a weather station from scratch using a Raspberry Pi, and he has put together a nice write up that shows where he is at, and how it works. Currently, his setup is in the bre...
Mini Weather Station With Attiny85: In a recent instructable Indigod0g described a mini weather station that works pretty well, using two Arduinos. Maybe not everyone wants to sacrifice 2 Arduinos to get humidity and temperature readings and I commented that it should be possible to d…
The 7” Touchscreen Display for Raspberry Pi gives users the ability to create all-in-one, integrated projects such as tablets, infotainment systems and embedded projects!
Combining common hardware store parts with readily available micro-controllers yields an automated vertical hydroponic garden system for indoors or outdoor growing.
l built a DIY Google AI Assistant using a Raspberry Pi, USB Speaker and USB microphone.
Arduino Sprinkler System + Web Control: A smart sprinkler system for the rest of us... No soldering involved ! Just pile up a couple of shields on top of an arduino and control your sprinkler system from anywhere. A couple of friends wanted to replicate the sprinkler system presented in …
Watering Garden With GARD-A-WATER Arduino Project: Hi All, Since I've bought some area for future house I was wondering how to have a really nice lawn. Not a classic one but an English-style superb lawn :) But Hey! how do you want to have lawn without proper watering ? So me and ipe were thinking ho…
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…
Automated Greenhouse: We decided to design a greenhouse as subject for our electronic project. The goal was to regulate the temperature inside the greenhouse thanks a lamp, a servomotor to open a window and a PC fan. We wanted to maintain a quite constant level of soil m…
If you need to know the forecast, generally you can look outside, listen to a weather report, or take advantage of the wide range of online services available. For something local to your dwelling place, however, this 3D-printed weather measurement device gives a great way to see what’s going on. The system features a 3D-printed […]
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler announced another $12 million in Great Lakes grants on behalf of the Trump Administration ...
HERE IS WHAT MAKES IT ALL HAPPEN: Detail view of the tube supports: DETAILS ON THE 12 INCH TUBE: The bottom tube is 12 inches in diameter. It is 10 feet long with 5 supports. Empty it holds…
Arduino Auto Watering Garden Project: What your looking at above is my entire project in its' enclosure. I set out to solve a problem when starting this project that was two fold. One it was to familiarize myself with some of the basics of the Arduino environment and the other was to ha…
Aquaponics is an incredibly efficient way to grow food. This is an original solar-powered vertical aquaponics system design concept to maximize yield.
The Hydroponic, Automated, Networking, Climate Controlled Greenhouse Project Update (July 22, 2012): This is a quick update to show what I've accomplished so far in the construction of my greenhouse. As usual I'm far behind schedule mainly due to weather, landscaping projects, work, etc. It's hard to find the time right now to write full instructab…
DIY Solar Tracker: Introduction We aim to introduce young students to engineering and teach them about solar energy; by having them build a Helios as part of their curriculum. There is an effort in engineering to push energy generation away from the use of fossil fue…
Another illustration that demonstrate how to use the ESP8266 as a web-based Soil Moisture / Temperature and Humidity Monitor. If you’re new to ESP8266 please refer to this link. There are 3 main component are used to this project. The ESP8266, DHT11/12, and the Soil Moisture Sensor, as you can see the diagram below there
ESP8266 Soil Moisture Sensor With Arduino IDE: The ESP8266 is a great piece of electronics. If you like Arduino, you'll also like the ESP8266. They are small, only require 3.3 volts and best of all they have full WiFi capabilities. The ESP8266 is perfect if you want to web enable just about any …
Arduino GPRS Weather Station - Part 2: Upgraded Wind Sensors and Improved Energy Efficiency: In my continuing efforts to control my island's weather I have rebuilt my GPRS weather station with upgraded 'industry standard' calibrated wind sensors and made several significant improvements for better energy efficiency. This weather station is…
Enjoy succulent summer fruits, like strawberries and raspberries, all year long by preserving them as jam with our step-by-step guide.
Arduino GPRS Weather Station - Part 1: With the threat of increasingly erratic weather patterns circulating the skies of our planet, day after day of unceasing rain, floods, droughts, hail storms and who knows what else, a weather station seems to be a useful and necessary household acce…
Make Your Own Arduino Weather Station!: Introduction This durable arduino weather station kit includes an anemometer, wind vane, rain bucket and DH11 temperature and humidity sensor. It can transmit data via serial or RF interfaces. This tutorial will demonstrate how to assemble the weath…
Wireless Soldering Iron: Wireless soldering iron - that sounds weird. Sometimes I feel like soldering outdoors, but I can't take my soldering station outside. I bought a USB soldering iron, which worked quite well, but needed a little modification, because what if I want to…
