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Blog10# Conclusion

karthickiot

In summer watering plants is must also it is the most difficult time for container plant watering, the amount of water may vary from species to species. Container plants outdoors need more water than those indoors. This is because higher temperatures...
- 28 Oct 2020
Blog9# Functioning of the hardware to water the plants

karthickiot

The hardware is setup to water the plants in different areas to water the plants in different quantities. The video shows the working of the watering System.
- 28 Oct 2020
Blog8# Program to control the Motors to specific time.

karthickiot

The software program is important to control the watering system to water the plants in different pots with different water quantity. #include <SPI.h> const int EN = 8; // Set pin 8 to control Enable pin of TLE94112 ...
- 28 Oct 2020
Bolg7# Installing the setup to water the plants in pots of different sizes.

karthickiot

Installing the setup to different pots is important and in home the pots will be located at different places like in garden, balcony, hanging, etc.In the present blog I would like to give on idea to set the watering time for different sized pots. In ...
- 28 Oct 2020
And I keep working on the application. Blog #10

lesmalave

Although we are already at Zero hour. I still have to add the application of "extracting toxic gases from the environment".I already have the idea of how it goes. And it will be with the MQ135 sensor where I got better results in practice. (detects i...
- 26 Oct 2020
Gas sensors Pressure sensors: MQ7 MQ135 & DPS368 Blog #9

lesmalave

The MQ7 and MQ135 sensors operate with voltages of 5 Volts. and they must be hot to get best measurements.With the MQ135 sensor it was really easy to work. It is highly sensitive to different types of gases that are harmful to our health. I got prett...
- 26 Oct 2020
DHT11 & Light sensor aplication Blog #8

lesmalave

Be careful when using the DHT11 sensor when reversing the polarity (it is very easy to get the wrong polarity causing irreversible damage to the module)At the time of prototyping use good cables or better as in my case to assemble a welded Protoshiel...
- 26 Oct 2020
LCD 2004 I2C Blog #7

lesmalave

This post I should have written before.I used this screen because it is easy to work with and I kept it in one of my unused drawers.It allows me to write 4 lines in 20 characters.Since there are several sensors that I have in the project, I created f...
- 26 Oct 2020
Soil Moisture sensor Aplication Blog #6

lesmalave

It is a simple sensor that measures soil moisture by the variation of its conductivity. It is not accurate enough to make an absolute measurement of soil moisture, but it is not necessary to control an irrigation system either. In my case the va...
- 26 Oct 2020
Added DC Motor Shield TLE94112 Blog#5

lesmalave

Add the libraries and paths We made sure to read the library documentation carefully (that's why I prefer to use VSC)And we configure our motors on outputs 7/8 and 11/12, which are the ones we are going to use for the water pump and the gas extra...
- 26 Oct 2020
A soil moisture sensor Blog #4

lesmalave

I added A soil moisture sensord a new analog sensor. the analog sensors are configured as followswhere we place the trigger thresholds for the water pump at a minimum of 1200 and a maximum of 2800
- 26 Oct 2020
Blog6# Motor connections to Relax lite kit via TLE94112 Driver module.

karthickiot

The power supply for the motor is driven by the TLE94112 Motor driver shield and the regulated power from the source is connected for the GND and Vcc pins in the shield as shown in the below figures. Water Motors are connected to the half-...
- 18 Oct 2020
Setting hardware part 2 Blog #3

lesmalave

We will continue setting the hardware, we will talk about the environmental sensors and the display. We had available the DHT11 sensors, the popular temperature and humidity sensor, the MQ135 Air Quality Meter, the MQ7 CO sensor and the sensor suppli...
- 12 Oct 2020
Blog5# Programing XMC 4200 Platform2Go kit

karthickiot

The below images shows step-by-step to configure and program in DAVE IDE. Program:#include <xmc_gpio.h> #define TICKS_PER_SECOND 1000 #define TICKS_WAIT 100 #define LED1 P0_1 void SysTick_Handler(void) { static uint32_t ti...
- 9 Oct 2020
Blog4# Programing XMC 4700 RELAX LITE kit

karthickiot

The arduino Sketch to program to Toggle on-board LEDs on XMC 4700 Relax kit.C program toggle leds in every one second/* Simple LED library flashes on board LED Every second Simple RTC for Infineon XMC boards with RTC Demonstrates the use of t...
- 9 Oct 2020
Blog3# Managing boards and including libraries in Arduino IDE

karthickiot

Managing the XMC Infineon boards in the Arduino IDE are shown in step by step and examples codes are available in the following URL https://github.com/Infineon/XMC-for-Arduino DC-Motor-Control-TLE94112EL library from the Github URL https://githu...
- 9 Oct 2020
Blog2# Software to program the kits.

karthickiot

The software can be used in the project can be ARDUINO or DAVE IDE. Current version of DAVE IDE can be downloaded from the URL https://infineoncommunity.com/dave-download_ID645and step by step installation was explained in below video you may in...
- 9 Oct 2020
Blog1# Out of Box and Hardware importance

karthickiot

In the Present Projects the Infineon Hardware are used to design the "Smart Garden Plants watering IoT System". The below figure are the challenge kit awarded to design the project. MCUPlatform2GO XMC4200 has salient features like...
- 9 Oct 2020
Sustain The World - Smart Portable Freezer #8 Progress and Failure

fyaocn

1. Slow Progress 2. The Failure 3. Thing to learn and way to go 1. Slow ProgressIt has been several weeks with little progress. Study the datasheet of XMC4400 and XMC4200 , even XMC4700. To find out that hidden features of XMC series. XM...
- 9 Oct 2020
Garbage Collector #10 Summary

wanfp97

In this blog I will summaries all my works Blog List:Garbage Collector #1 Introduction Garbage Collector #2 Clamp testing Garbage Collector #3 Seeking help from Infineon's Technical Supports Garbage Collector #4 Some basic interactions with the shi...
- 8 Oct 2020
Measure Climate Change with Hydroponic System Blog #10 | Summary

kurama007

Introduction This will be the final blog post of Sustain the World Design Challenge. I really enjoy this challenge and also the conversations that I had with a few folks about this project. Hope to continue some technical and science discussions abou...
- 8 Oct 2020
coastal monitoring platform #10 future improvements

cyberwizard

While I’m still repairing the platform, it has come to my attention that my project won’t make it in time for the completion for the contest. Nevertheless, I’ll improve the coastal platform from time to time. Future improvements will be: *C...
- 7 Oct 2020
coastal monitoring platform #9 troubles at sea

cyberwizard

One of the most difficult aspect of this project is deploying the device at sea. The water is not very kind to the device and it will swallow the platform into the depths of the sea. I planned to go to the beach to test the device, but as...
- 7 Oct 2020
coastal monitoring platform #8 putting it together

cyberwizard

With the solar power installed, we can now assemble and test the rest of the peripherals. I run some test on the platform and some issues came to light. I suspect the source of this problem is the power distribution or the sola...
- 7 Oct 2020
coastal monitoring platform #7 solar mayhem

cyberwizard

Installing the solar panel is an important part of the platform since it will supply power needed to operate long term out at sea. There are many options on how to set-up solar panel circuitry with this. I’m not even sure which one is the...
- 7 Oct 2020