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Overengineered Irrigation IV: Pumping water
Let's add some pumps to transfer water into plant pots! This will require mostly a lot of woodworking and electrical routing. Lots of pictures this time!
ReadOverengineered Irrigation III: Moisture Sensors
In order to ensure that each plant gets the right amount of water, we need to measure the moisture contents of the soil quite accurately. The easiest way to do that is to measure the voltage between two electrodes in the soil.
ReadOverengineered Irrigation II: Relays
Some new parts arrived today (specifically 10kΩ resistors), and it's time to connect the relay module with the controller circuit!
ReadOverengineered Irrigation I: The Base
As someone who suffers from having too many hobbies and too little time, it might sound silly to add another one to the mix. One of them being indoors vegetable cultivation already means that I have a big time sink that needs to be tended to regularly.
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