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Blog10# Conclusion

2020-10-28T17:13:13Z

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...(read more)

Blog9# Functioning of the hardware to water the plants

2020-10-28T16:57:58Z

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.(read more)

Blog8# Program to control the Motors to specific time.

2020-10-28T16:35:52Z

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 ...(read more)

Bolg7# Installing the setup to water the plants in pots of different sizes.

2020-10-28T15:56:54Z

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 ...(read more)

And I keep working on the application. Blog #10

2020-10-26T09:25:08Z

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...(read more)

Gas sensors Pressure sensors: MQ7 MQ135 & DPS368 Blog #9

2020-10-26T08:32:32Z

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...(read more)

DHT11 & Light sensor aplication Blog #8

2020-10-26T08:15:54Z

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...(read more)

LCD 2004 I2C Blog #7

2020-10-26T08:02:28Z

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...(read more)

Soil Moisture sensor Aplication Blog #6

2020-10-26T07:37:58Z

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...(read more)

Added DC Motor Shield TLE94112 Blog#5

2020-10-26T07:25:07Z

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...(read more)

A soil moisture sensor Blog #4

2020-10-26T07:07:44Z

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 (read more)

Blog6# Motor connections to Relax lite kit via TLE94112 Driver module.

2020-10-18T09:48:10Z

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-...(read more)

Setting hardware part 2 Blog #3

2020-10-12T06:10:08Z

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...(read more)

Blog5# Programing XMC 4200 Platform2Go kit

2020-10-09T18:11:44Z

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...(read more)

Blog4# Programing XMC 4700 RELAX LITE kit

2020-10-09T17:52:21Z

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...(read more)